Tunga White: How much land would you say y'all worked on that farm? Alice Reagan: I would say about 35 acres. Tunga White: Did you have any brothers or sisters that worked— Alice Reagan: Yes, ma'am. Tunga White: —farmed? Alice Reagan: No. He hired a fellow to work with him. He was a hired helper. Tunga White: And who was given the land from? Do you know? Alice Reagan: Yeah, he rented land from Mrs. Mary King for one. She was to live in something. And let me see from who else. Tunga White: [indistinct 00:00:48]? Alice Reagan: Oh, it didn't— Tunga White: [INTERRUPTION 00:00:48]. Tunga White: Okay. Now, you said that your husband rented land for a living from Mary King? Alice Reagan: Mary King. That's right. Tunga White: Now were there a lot of other—Did she have a lot of land and rented it out to a lot of people? Alice Reagan: Not in our area. Tunga White: No? Alice Reagan: We had the whole place at that time. Tunga White: Now were you all share renters? Did you have your own mules? Alice Reagan: Yeah. We had our own to farm it with. Tunga White: Okay. And all you did was just pay her a certain amount of money for land? Alice Reagan: Yes, for rent at the end of the year. Tunga White: How much did y'all pay rent that land? Do you remember? Alice Reagan: I don't know. I used to carry money to her, too, but I forgot how much it was now. Tunga White: Was it a lot of money or— Alice Reagan: Wasn't so much, maybe like $200 or something like that. Tunga White: And then you could grow whatever you wanted to? Alice Reagan: Whatever you wanted. Yeah. Tunga White: And you wouldn't have to give her any more? Alice Reagan: Any more of it. Just give her the rent. Tunga White: Were there a lot of sharecroppers or people like that in the area? Alice Reagan: Yeah. It used to be a lot of sharecroppers. But we never sharecropped with anyone. Tunga White: Did any White lived in this area that were land owners or renters or croppers? Alice Reagan: Yes, because then when I bought this place here, when we bought this place, he was White, and we rented that land over there from this Ms. King. She was White. And yeah, most of them was White. Black people didn't hardly have nothing. Most of them was White. Tunga White: So would you say most Black people rented land or bought land? Alice Reagan: Rented or sharecropped. Rented or sharecropped. Tunga White: Now was this the only job you held? Alice Reagan: No, I— Tunga White: [indistinct 00:03:12]? Alice Reagan: No. After I got married—You mean since I got married? Tunga White: Uh-huh. Alice Reagan: No, I worked a lot since I got married because I worked at Summerton Motel 32 years after I got married. Tunga White: What year did you start at Summerton Motel? Alice Reagan: I forgot what year it was. I just can't remember that. But I know I worked there 32 years. Because I had children large enough to work on the farm at that time. Tunga White: So your husband kept working and farming? Alice Reagan: Yeah. Tunga White: He didn't have any other type job? Alice Reagan: No. He quit working on the job when we got married and just farmed along with the help from other people. Then I started working [indistinct 00:04:04]. I was a waitress for 32 years. Tunga White: Now what did you say your job was at the motel? Alice Reagan: Waitress. Tunga White: A waitress. Now you worked—It was a segregated hotel? Alice Reagan: No. Tunga White: It wasn't segregated? Alice Reagan: No. Tunga White: And the dining area wasn't segregated? Alice Reagan: No. Anybody gets food there. Tunga White: Can you recall what your pay was when you first started? Alice Reagan: Yeah. No, it was $14 a week. Tunga White: Did it increase by a whole lot in those 32 years? Alice Reagan: No, not a whole lot. But a little. I forgot just how much. Tunga White: Now when did you start your family? How old were you when your first child? Alice Reagan: Yeah, I had my first child—I don't know how old I was, but I was—Anyhow, he was born a little over nine months after I was married. Tunga White: Okay. Alice Reagan: Yeah. Tunga White: And you still had to—You were still working in the field? Alice Reagan: I still was working in the field and working job work, too, when I was pregnant. Tunga White: So you worked your job, worked in the field, and you were pregnant. Alice Reagan: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Tunga White: Now up until what point did you stop working to have your baby? Alice Reagan: I would say maybe two months before I— Tunga White: Do you know of some women who worked right up until the point when they have their baby? Alice Reagan: Yeah, I had worked like this morning and had one baby tonight. (laughs) Tunga White: Strain you with hard work! Alice Reagan: But it wasn't so—It didn't seem hard because I had so many children. This was my baby, and it didn't seem hard. Not to me. But a lady came through my yard that afternoon. She said, "Alice." I was sweeping from under my porch. I wanted all the—I didn't want nobody to be—no trash to be around the house or nothing over there. And I just slept from under there, and I was under there. She said, "Alice. Get yourself from under that porch. Actually you're killing yourself." I said, "No, I'm not. I don't feel bad or anything like that." She said, "Yeah, but you too far gone to be under the house sweep." She would say, "When Robert come down now and you up under the house, I don't know what he gonna say to you." Alice Reagan: I said, "Well, that's all right. I will make it." Like acting up. So I said, "Okay, I almost through enough." And she moved the trash out from under the porch at me, and then I took it up. And I took it up. She says, "You better have yourself sitting down." Then I come up there, too. I said, "Where you going?" She said, "I going to Rachel's house and I'll be back in a little while." When she came back she said, "You out from under there?" I said, "Yeah. You can come look at the little baby later on." That's what I told her. Tunga White: Really? Alice Reagan: She said, "What baby?" (White laughs) I said, "My baby." So she said, "Okay, I'll see." But she went on down there now. She said a little later on she looked back up at my house and she saw this midwife. I didn't never had a child in no hospital. She said she saw this midwife just turning around there. And she said, "[indistinct 00:07:47]. It looks good." I used to call her Little Curly. I said, "Little Curly to Alice. Do you think Alice had that baby?" Alice Reagan: She said, "Yeah, it must be because that's the only reason why I couldn't be in the house to see about her." So the lady came on back up in my house. I had the little baby. I said, "I told you you could come back and look after the little baby later on." She said, "Alice, you ain't nothing but just an old dog!" (laughs) Yeah, yoy know, just playing. Yeah. She said, "And you ain't sick?" I said, "No, I'm not sick. I told you, around my house was going to be clean when I had this baby. Clean, too, ain't it?" Tunga White: Uh-huh. Alice Reagan: Oh, she just fussing. For no reason, yeah, I just don't know what. Yes. Goodness. Tunga White: That's something else. Alice Reagan: Yeah. Tunga White: Working [indistinct 00:08:36] in the morning. Alice Reagan: Yeah, that's right. Tunga White: [indistinct 00:08:38]. Alice Reagan: That's right. That's right. Tunga White: Now Mrs. Reagan, I know you got something because I've got something, so can I finish? Can I come back one day maybe next week or in the next couple of days? Alice Reagan: Yes. Tunga White: I'll get your number. Can I get your telephone number and call you? Alice Reagan: Uh-huh. Tunga White: We can set up a time to [indistinct 00:08:51]? What's your phone number? Alice Reagan: 478-4256. Tunga White: I'll give you a call. When do you think will be a good time for me to call you? Alice Reagan: Well, you mean like morning or evening? Tunga White: Uh-huh. Alice Reagan: Most any time will be all right for you to call me. Tunga White: Can I call you this weekend some time? Maybe Saturday? Alice Reagan: Yes. Tunga White: Okay, and we can set up a time so we can finish doing this, because I want to hear—