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Midge Thomas

Page history last edited by gjsands@k12.carr.org 14 years, 6 months ago
Midge Thomas
…We made the best of what we had.
I attended the old Robert Moton School for three years, and we had outhouses there, and if you think about today [very cold!] and having to go outside, that wouldn’t be very good.
 
We had teachers that taught three or four classes, different subjects,
 
We were bused from Mt. Airy.  It took us an hour to get to Robert Moton in the morning, and then in the evening it took us an hour to get home, unless is was snowing or very cold.  Then it took us two hours to get to and from school, and the bus would be so cold, we’d have to sit on each other’s feet to keep warm until we got home….You do what you have to do.  We needed to go to school, so…and these people were trying very hard to get us back and forth to school.
 
The man that drove the school bus was named Alonzo Lee, and he not only drove the school bus, but he also taught the sixth grade.  And when we had other activities at school, like the music festival, games, things like that, he’d come back and drive the children back to Robert Moton at night so that we could go to the games, because a lot of our students’ parents didn’t have cars, so that was how we got back and forth from school.
 
You just talked [on the ride to school]…and you behaved!  That’s the one good thing about those teachers!
 
Some kids had to walk maybe a half a mile or a mile to get to where we caught the bus.
So that’s a long day when you had to ride on the bus for an hour, and then you had to walk, too. So that brings you out really early in the morning and late at night.

 
View the video interview for Midge Thomas at the Carroll County History Project website, "Carroll County - Through the Eyes of the Black Experience": http://carrollhistory.org/tebe.html
 

Comments (1)

Taylor B. said

at 3:09 pm on Nov 5, 2010

I interviewed her! she was a really cool person to talk to and find out a lot of interesting information from! thank you for viewing :)

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