Mrs. Rose Jackson on Leisure

Authors

Hamida Suja

Files

Description

Interviewer: Hamida Suja

Interviewee: Mrs. Rose Jackson (age 66; born in Louisville, Mississippi; lives in South Portland for 39 years; married 34 years; has six children; had five children with her first husband; he died and she remarried and had a child with the current husband)

“And we would get together, like, have a fish fry on the weekend with our white friends, our white neighbors. And when we would get out and fish, my daddy and them would go down and get in the water and just muddy the water up with hoes-what you chop cotton with-and the fish would come to the top of the water. And they would get the fish out. And we would clean them and we'd cook them. And that's the reason I call it the good old days.”

“I was a tomboy mother; there were so many sons. We would play ball and I would throw the ball just as hard as they will, bat the ball. And when you're living in a place like Sagamore, you got this whole big field out there to play in, you got room for everybody.”

Publication Date

5-31-2001

Publisher

USM African American Collection

City

Lewiston, Maine

Keywords

Leisure, African American History, Maine

Disciplines

African American Studies | American Popular Culture | American Studies | Cultural History | Genealogy | History | Labor History | Oral History | Other American Studies | Other History | Public History | Social History | United States History | Women's History | Women's Studies

Recommended Citation

Suja, Hamida, "Mrs. Rose Jackson on Leisure" (2001). We Exist Series 4: Quotes. 8.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/we4_leisurequotes/8