Maude Jean-Batiste interview recording, 1994 August 09

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Kate Ellis	Would you tell me your name and when you were born?	0:03
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste. The 12th month, 27, '13.	0:15
Kate Ellis	Question to test, would you tell me where you were born?	0:22
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I was born in Vermilion Parish, a place they called Bayou Tigre.	0:28
Kate Ellis	It was called Bayou—	0:36
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	A branch off from Delcambre.	0:37
Kate Ellis	Oh, okay. I'm wondering, we already started talking before we were tape recording, but I'm wondering if you would tell me some more about your coming up years in Vermilion Parish, what you remember about it.	0:38
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Oh, I remember that we had to walk to school three miles one way. I remember that. And when we went to school, we didn't know how to speak English, and they didn't want us to talk French. So we got many whippings. We had to walk to church, too. And we had a place, a man used to sell mule and horses. So we'd wear old shoes until we get to that barn, then change our shoes to go to school or to go to church.	0:59
Kate Ellis	So you'd change your shoes at the barn, where the mule and horses were?	1:40
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. And we'd leave our old shoes there.	1:44
Kate Ellis	Oh.	1:46
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And pick them up, change our shoes back to walk back home.	1:48
Kate Ellis	Who was that gentleman? Was he a sort of — Did you talk to him when you'd stop at the barn, and—	1:53
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. Our parents had made arrangements that we could do that.	1:59
Kate Ellis	Oh.	2:03
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And I done forgot the man's name, but he used to sell animals, mules and horses. I wish I could remember all them things back there, because right now there, sometime I don't remember my name.	2:04
Kate Ellis	Really? Just kind of goes? (laughs). What it sounds like, just from what you've said, you remember that you'd walk to school.	2:23
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	2:30
Kate Ellis	That it was a long walk.	2:30
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Three miles one way.	2:32
Kate Ellis	That's a long walk.	2:33
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	2:34
Kate Ellis	And what did you do when it was raining outside?	2:37
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Oh, we got wet plenty of times.	2:39
Kate Ellis	Yeah.	2:41
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm. We didn't get wet going to school. We'd get wet going back home. Because if it was raining, we wouldn't go to school.	2:43
Kate Ellis	Oh, I see.	2:50
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	We wouldn't go to school on that day, but if you were coming home and it started raining, you'd get wet.	2:52
Kate Ellis	Yeah.	3:00
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And we were glad when it would rain, because when we'd get home, Mama had something good for us.	3:00
Kate Ellis	Oh, really? She'd have something waiting for you when you'd get home?	3:05
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. Mm—hmm.	3:08
Kate Ellis	So you'd get home, what would you do? Would you change out of your clothes?	3:11
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Oh, yes. Mm-hmm.	3:14
Kate Ellis	Did you have a set of school clothes and a set of play or work clothes?	3:16
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	We sure did. We sure did. That clothes you wear to go to school, you couldn't wear that in the yard.	3:21
Kate Ellis	You'd take those off when you get home.	3:27
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. No. That's right. And Mama made all our clothes.	3:29
Kate Ellis	Did she?	3:33
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm. All our clothes.	3:34
Kate Ellis	Where would she get the cloth from, for the clothing?	3:38
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, there was a store in Delcambre. There was a store in Delcambre that would sell material.	3:41
Kate Ellis	Is that the store that your parents would take the eggs that they would sell from the chickens?	3:50
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	3:58
Kate Ellis	That was the store?	3:58
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. Mm-hmm. There wasn't a store for this thing and that thing. It was only one store, you know? You did all your business there. That I remember.	4:03
Kate Ellis	Do you remember the store owner?	4:15
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No.	4:16
Kate Ellis	No?	4:17
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-mm. That done slip away from me. It's so many things I wish I would remember right now.	4:18
Kate Ellis	Really?	4:25
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	4:25
Kate Ellis	Mm-hmm.	4:26
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Because you know what?	4:28
Kate Ellis	What?	4:29
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I can't tell you the date my mother and father died. My mother used to have a book that when somebody in the family would die, she'd have me to write that in there. I don't know what happened to that book.	4:30
Kate Ellis	Was it—	4:44
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I don't remember the date my mother or neither my father died.	4:47
Kate Ellis	Was it a long time ago that they passed?	4:52
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	My mother died in '52.	4:55
Kate Ellis	So you remember the year that they died.	5:02
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. Mm-hmm.	5:03
Kate Ellis	Okay.	5:03
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	End of '52. My mother died in '52. My husband got killed in '57, and my father died in '59.	5:08
Kate Ellis	That was — Wow.	5:18
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	5:21
Kate Ellis	That was a hard time. Wow.	5:24
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	5:28
Kate Ellis	And you were saying when your husband died, it was a car accident?	5:29
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm. He was with one of his buddy.	5:38
Kate Ellis	Did the man die as well?	5:42
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. He didn't have nothing. He wasn't even hospitalized.	5:44
Kate Ellis	Wow. Where was this?	5:52
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Hmm?	5:54
Kate Ellis	What town was that in, that that happened?	5:54
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	It happened in between here and St. Martinville. On St. Martinville Highway. Yeah.	5:56
Kate Ellis	And you had three kids at the time? Three children?	6:05
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes. The oldest one was 15, the middle one was 12, and the baby was six. He hadn't even started school yet.	6:10
Kate Ellis	Well, let me ask you something. I mean, we're sort of jumping way ahead from your early life, but since we're on the topic, you had said that you were — Were you the first female bus driver in New Iberia?	6:22
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	6:38
Kate Ellis	Is that—	6:39
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	6:39
Kate Ellis	Wow. And did you take that job in 1957?	6:40
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	6:42
Kate Ellis	Okay. Did you take that job as a result of your husband's death?	6:45
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes, but I had to apply for the job. It didn't automatically came to me. I had to apply for the job just like everybody else did, and I was accepted.	6:50
Kate Ellis	Wow. So you applied for the job with Iberia, the Iberia Parish School Board?	7:03
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	7:09
Kate Ellis	They're the ones that hired you?	7:10
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	7:11
Kate Ellis	So what was your first bus route? Who were you—	7:12
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	It was Geo's Shipyard. I don't know if you know where that is.	7:15
Kate Ellis	No. What was it called again?	7:15
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Geo's Shipyard.	7:15
Kate Ellis	Geo's Shipyard. Where was that?	7:18
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, all them big things over there on Commercial Canal.	7:28
Kate Ellis	Okay.	7:36
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Let me see what else else they call it. Geo Shipyard, or the port.	7:37
Kate Ellis	The port. Okay. So you would pick some—	7:42
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	But I wasn't living here.	7:47
Kate Ellis	Where were you living?	7:48
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I was living out in the country.	7:49
Kate Ellis	Okay. Okay. Well, maybe I should—	7:50
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I moved here in '59 to take care of my father that was sick.	7:55
Kate Ellis	Oh.	7:59
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Because my husband got killed in '57.	8:01
Kate Ellis	Right.	8:03
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	So I couldn't take care of my daddy, and having the children out in the country, and have to take them to school and start my bus route out there. But after I moved to town, for two years, I had to go start my bus route out there.	8:04
Kate Ellis	Wow. So you were commuting to work every day in the school bus?	8:23
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	8:28
Kate Ellis	So what would your day look like when you were living here? What time would you get up in the morning?	8:28
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Oh, 6:00. 5:30, 6:00.	8:35
Kate Ellis	And—	8:35
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I had to be at Geo's Shipyard to start my route at 7:00. It wasn't allowed to pick up any children before 7:00.	8:41
Kate Ellis	And so would your children get themselves ready for school? Were they able to—	8:49
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	They had to get on the bus with me.	8:53
Kate Ellis	Oh, so they'd get on the bus with you.	8:55
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Just like Veronica and them.	8:57
Kate Ellis	I don't—	9:00
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	There was no bus passing here to pick up Veronica and them. In order for them to get to school in the bus, they had to get on the bus with me, and go out — We were out in the country.	9:00
Kate Ellis	And so would you drop them off at school—	9:11
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	9:12
Kate Ellis	— or would you drop them off at a different bus stop? Okay.	9:13
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. At the school that they had to go to.	9:16
Kate Ellis	What school were they going to?	9:17
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, Veronica and them was going to St. Edward's School.	9:19
Kate Ellis	But what about your children? What school were your children going to?	9:23
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, where did they go to? Anderson High?	9:26
Kate Ellis	Wasn't that in New Iberia?	9:37
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	9:38
Kate Ellis	I see. So you would get in the bus, and they'd go with you, and you'd drop them off at Anderson High?	9:39
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I had to go pick them up way out. I had to go pick up my stuff, my bus route way out there first.	9:44
Kate Ellis	Right.	9:48
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Then I'd come to town with a full bus of children.	9:50
Kate Ellis	To take them to Anderson High.	9:52
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. To a different school.	9:54
Kate Ellis	Oh, to a different school.	9:55
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. I had 13 schools to go to.	9:56
Kate Ellis	Oh, I see. 13 schools?	9:56
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	10:03
Kate Ellis	And these are all African American children that you're — I mean, this is their bus?	10:06
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes, but I picked up everybody.	10:10
Kate Ellis	What do you mean everybody? White students as well?	10:14
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. When I moved, when they put me in town, yes. I had to pick up White children too. I had more White children than I had Black.	10:15
Kate Ellis	Oh, that was when you moved to town, they started doing that?	10:24
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	10:26
Kate Ellis	Before you moved to town—	10:26
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I had only Black children.	10:29
Kate Ellis	That you would pick up out in the country and bring them in to schools in the area, in Iberia Parish?	10:32
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. In different schools. Yes.	10:39
Kate Ellis	Different schools. So kids young and old. It sounds like they were all different grades.	10:40
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Then when I was moved to town, I thought it would have been much easier. I had three different routes.	10:46
Kate Ellis	Three different routes in the morning?	10:52
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	10:58
Kate Ellis	So you'd pick up one—	10:58
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I'd pick up the high school children, go deliver them, get back and pick up the grade school children, go deliver them, then I had to pick up the retarded children, and go deliver them.	10:58
Kate Ellis	So were you responsible for picking up all the — You weren't responsible for picking up all the students in the parish?	11:12
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. I just had, everybody had their route.	11:18
Kate Ellis	Okay. So this was your—	11:22
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	This was my route.	11:24
Kate Ellis	And as you said that when you moved here to this town in 1959, that's when you started having to pick up White students as well?	11:25
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	11:33
Kate Ellis	How did that go in the bus? I mean, how did the kids get along? Was that—	11:34
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	They got along well.	11:39
Kate Ellis	Really?	11:40
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	11:40
Kate Ellis	And there wasn't anything about the Black students having to sit in the back of the bus, right?	11:41
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. No.	11:45
Kate Ellis	Okay.	11:46
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. I had my children, when they get on the bus, they sit and they can't get up. You can't get up until it's time to get off.	11:48
Kate Ellis	But they all got along?	11:54
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	11:56
Kate Ellis	And the parents weren't—	11:56
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I never had any trouble with the parents. No.	11:58
Kate Ellis	And they were still, of course, going to separate — You dropped them at different schools?	12:02
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	12:06
Kate Ellis	That's interesting.	12:08
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, the high school, well, the White and Black was going to a high school. They didn't have one high school for — I think they did at the beginning.	12:11
Kate Ellis	Yeah. I think you did. In the beginning, they were separate.	12:21
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. Because when they integrated the school, I was in there.	12:24
Kate Ellis	You were driving the bus?	12:28
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No, I was not.	12:29
Kate Ellis	You were in there?	12:30
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	My son, my youngest son was in that gang from the senior high, going to Henderson up there, and he said, "Mama, I want you to follow us in case somebody would get sick."	12:31
Kate Ellis	Would get sick?	12:44
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Or pass out.	12:47
Kate Ellis	Get sick?	12:49
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	They'd march. They'd march from the high school, they'd march all the way across town.	12:49
Kate Ellis	Oh. On the first day that they integrated?	12:55
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	12:58
Kate Ellis	So let me see if I get this straight. The senior high—	13:00
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	The senior high is only on Admiral Doyle, way down there.	13:06
Kate Ellis	Okay.	13:09
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	That was the White high school. And the Colored high school was Henderson High on Hopkins Street, down that way.	13:10
Kate Ellis	So which students marched?	13:17
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	They all marched.	13:21
Kate Ellis	They marched to Senior High?	13:23
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. Most—	13:24
Kate Ellis	So students from Henderson High.	13:25
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	The seniors from Senior High marched to Henderson High.	13:27
Kate Ellis	[indistinct 00:13:32].	13:30
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	But when they got to the corner of Admiral Doyle and Hopkins Street, then policemen start throwing tear gas there. That dispersed the crowd.	13:32
Kate Ellis	The White students from Senior High were marching to Henderson—	13:44
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No, no, no. It was mostly Black.	13:49
Kate Ellis	Oh, but I thought — Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you had said that they—	13:52
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. They started from the White high school.	13:55
Kate Ellis	The Black students did?	13:57
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	13:58
Kate Ellis	So they showed up at school at the White high school, and then they marched from Henderson? To Henderson?	13:58
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	They marched from Senior High. They were going to take their school back.	14:06
Kate Ellis	Oh. I see. So it was sort of a demonstration?	14:14
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	14:16
Kate Ellis	Oh, I see.	14:17
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And I was in there. And I wasn't in my bus, but in my car.	14:18
Kate Ellis	And you were just riding outside the—	14:21
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. And my child was in there, and he asked me to follow them.	14:22
Kate Ellis	Wow.	14:26
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I was a brave woman.	14:27
Kate Ellis	Yes. Well, sounds like your son was also brave. I mean, wow.	14:29
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, I'm going to tell you about him. He helped get them stores to hire Black cashiers. They didn't have no Black cashiers at the grocery stores, no stores. They didn't have Black in the bank. They picketed the bank, and they picketed the stores, and got several people that they hire after that.	14:36
Kate Ellis	And he was one of the people who did that, huh?	15:06
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. Uh-huh.	15:12
Kate Ellis	That's great.	15:15
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	He was young, but I guess he had some good pushes. It wasn't me.	15:17
Kate Ellis	Wasn't you?	15:26
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No.	15:26
Kate Ellis	I don't believe that for a moment.	15:26
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. I told my children, I never had no trouble with my children. I never was called at school from no teacher, no principal, or nothing. If you get in trouble and it's your fault, I'm going to fight tooth and nail for you. But if you get in trouble and it's your fault, you're going to sit it out. So they knew what to do and what not to do.	15:26
Kate Ellis	Wow.	15:50
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	My son that was 12 years old when his daddy got killed, he's the one who showed me how to drive the bus, and it wasn't automatic.	15:51
Kate Ellis	It was one of those standard — He showed you how to drive it? Now, how did he know how to drive?	15:59
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	He used to follow his daddy. His daddy was a school bus driver.	16:05
Kate Ellis	Oh.	16:08
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And he used to watch, and he used to follow his daddy.	16:08
Kate Ellis	No kidding.	16:11
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And observed what his daddy was doing.	16:12
Kate Ellis	Did you take over the bus job that your husband had?	16:13
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I had to apply for the job.	16:19
Kate Ellis	Right. But I mean, he died.	16:21
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	He got killed.	16:24
Kate Ellis	He got killed. A position opened up then. His bus driving position opened up, and you applied for it, and you learned how to drive from your son.	16:25
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And they gave me two weeks to get the bus in shape, and myself to learn how to drive.	16:36
Kate Ellis	Wow. But did you have the same bus route that your husband had?	16:43
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	16:48
Kate Ellis	Wow. That's incredible.	16:48
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	16:48
Kate Ellis	That's so [indistinct 00:16:49].	16:48
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And I had never rode in a bus.	16:48
Kate Ellis	That's amazing.	16:48
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	God was with us.	16:58
Kate Ellis	Yeah.	17:03
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And I had some good White folks with me too.	17:03
Kate Ellis	Did you? Tell me about that.	17:03
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, there was a man who was selling cars, and trucks, and the bus all came from him. And he knew the people that was on the school board, because one of his brothers went to Baton Rouge for me to get the job.	17:08
Kate Ellis	You mean, he went up to Baton Rouge?	17:27
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. He drove to Baton Rouge. Mm-hmm.	17:28
Kate Ellis	And said — Well, tell me.	17:32
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	He told them what had happened, and he was out there to see about the job for me. And I was accepted.	17:35
Kate Ellis	Wow.	17:44
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	They didn't know me, and I didn't know them.	17:45
Kate Ellis	So they didn't meet you?	17:50
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No, but they just went on this White man's word here, because he knew me well, and he knew my husband well, you know? Because that's when my brother was a farmer, and he bought his trucks there. He bought his car there and everything.	17:52
Kate Ellis	Oh.	18:07
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And believe me or not, he had his right arm cut off right here.	18:10
Kate Ellis	The White man did?	18:14
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No, my husband.	18:16
Kate Ellis	You're kidding me.	18:18
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No I'm not.	18:19
Kate Ellis	He had half an arm?	18:20
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Right here.	18:22
Kate Ellis	And he drove the bus?	18:23
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	He drove anything he wanted to drive.	18:24
Kate Ellis	And you told me that it wasn't an automatic.	18:27
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	That's right.	18:29
Kate Ellis	So he needed — How did he do that? Is that right?	18:29
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	18:34
Kate Ellis	But how would he do that and steer the bus?	18:35
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Ah, he had a little knob he'd put on the wheel.	18:37
Kate Ellis	That his arm sort of would—	18:41
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. But they gave him an artificial arm. He didn't want to use that. It wasn't an arm. It was a hook. And he didn't want to use that.	18:44
Kate Ellis	He didn't want to use a hook?	18:52
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-mm.	18:55
Kate Ellis	How did he lose his arm, or half his arm?	18:56
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Working on a defense job during the time of the war.	18:59
Kate Ellis	He was actually in the Army?	19:04
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No.	19:06
Kate Ellis	Oh, okay. It was a defense job.	19:07
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	A defense job. Yeah. And you know how much money he got for that?	19:09
Kate Ellis	How much?	19:13
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	$4,000.	19:13
Kate Ellis	For losing his arm?	19:15
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	19:16
Kate Ellis	That's incredible.	19:21
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And losing the right arm, too.	19:23
Kate Ellis	Which was the arm that he wrote with, or did he write? Did your husband write?	19:25
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Oh, no. No, no.	19:31
Kate Ellis	Wow. But he used his right arm.	19:32
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	If he had to sign his name, he could sign his name, but he had to — I don't know how you did it. He even fixed fence with that one arm.	19:35
Kate Ellis	I'm just amazed he only got $4,000. What kind of defense job was it? What was he doing?	19:48
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I don't know. It was on the grating machine or something. He got on the machine too greasy, and he slipped, and that grind his arm up. It didn't just cut it off, it grind it up. I done suffered some hard consequences, and I'm still here at 80, so I must be made out of good material.	19:55
Kate Ellis	I think so. I think so.	20:28
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I got five different kind of medicine on my refrigerator.	20:32
Kate Ellis	Really? That you have to take every day?	20:36
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	20:37
Kate Ellis	For your sugar, and your heart, and—	20:37
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Arthritis. I got two for my heart. One for arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure.	20:43
Kate Ellis	Can we go back to — I'm interested, again, in hearing more about your childhood, and hearing about what your parents did when you were coming up. How many brothers and sisters did you have?	20:58
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I had just five brothers.	21:14
Kate Ellis	You had five brothers?	21:17
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	21:18
Kate Ellis	Were you the only girl?	21:19
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Hmm?	21:20
Kate Ellis	You were the only girl?	21:20
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I had a sister, but she died at the age of 16.	21:21
Kate Ellis	Oh. How did she die?	21:26
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	From tonsil trouble. She wouldn't tell nobody her throat was sore. When she decided to tell, her throat was so — They operated on her, but her throat had never healed. It was too sore.	21:27
Kate Ellis	So they did operate on her?	21:43
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	21:45
Kate Ellis	Where did she get medical care from?	21:46
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	It was from here in New Iberia.	21:49
Kate Ellis	From the general hospital?	21:51
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. I done forgot the name of the — No, it wasn't a hospital at that time. It was a doctor that operated on her, in his office. I remember now.	21:53
Kate Ellis	A White doctor?	22:06
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No.	22:06
Kate Ellis	He was Black?	22:06
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	He was Black. One of the first Black doctor that came to New Iberia. I think his name was Dorsey.	22:07
Kate Ellis	Oh, Dr. Dorsey. Okay. Wow.	22:14
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	See, we didn't need to talk about that two or three weeks ago, so I could remember.	22:22
Kate Ellis	You mean so I could have had you thinking about this stuff? No, but it sounds, I mean, it sounds like you remember more than you're giving yourself credit for remembering. So she went to Dr. Dorsey, and it didn't heal.	22:27
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. He operated on her, but her throat was too sore.	22:40
Kate Ellis	As you were coming up, were you able to get adequate healthcare for — Was your family—	22:45
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. We had a doctor in Delcambre. But operations and things like that, he didn't do that. So he would refer you to somebody else.	22:54
Kate Ellis	So he referred your sister to Dr. Dorsey in New Iberia?	23:06
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm. Yeah.	23:09
Kate Ellis	I see. But you did have a Black doctor in Delcambre.	23:12
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. Mm-hmm.	23:15
Kate Ellis	And he'd come by, or he'd make house calls?	23:16
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Huh?	23:19
Kate Ellis	If you were sick, would he come by the house and make house calls?	23:19
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. Dr. Landry was making the house call. See, if you needed to be operated on, Dr. Landry wouldn't operate on you. He'd refer you to another doctor.	23:23
Kate Ellis	Okay. But that doctor's name was Dr. Landry?	23:36
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	23:39
Kate Ellis	Okay. A doctor in Delcambre. Wow. So you had, you said, five brothers, and then you had mentioned that you lived — Your family had a little bit of land.	23:44
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	23:55
Kate Ellis	Is that right? That you had a house on?	23:55
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. We had a little house. Yeah. It wasn't like we are today, but we had a little house to live in.	23:58
Kate Ellis	What was the house like?	24:08
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	It was just a one-shoot house. Everything was in the front, and then you had a kitchen. It wasn't private at all.	24:11
Kate Ellis	You mean, as far as—	24:24
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Because we didn't have no bathroom. We had to go outdoors.	24:25
Kate Ellis	Was there a privy? Was there a privy outside? Was there—	24:29
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	They used to call it a toilet.	24:33
Kate Ellis	A toilet. Okay. So there was that outside?	24:35
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. And you'd use a bathtub to take a bath.	24:37
Kate Ellis	Was the bathtub inside?	24:42
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Not a bathtub. Not a bathtub. A washtub.	24:43
Kate Ellis	Okay.	24:45
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	A wash—	24:45
Kate Ellis	Which was outside the house?	24:45
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. You'd leave it outside until you're getting ready to take a bath. Then you had to heat your own water. You had to—	24:48
Kate Ellis	Where did you get the water from?	24:54
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	A pump.	24:56
Kate Ellis	You had a pump?	24:57
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	24:58
Kate Ellis	I could see from your arm, probably a lot of pumping in your lifetime.	24:59
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah.	25:06
Kate Ellis	Huh.	25:06
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I know plenty of thing about a hard time.	25:08
Kate Ellis	Tell me what else you know about it.	25:15
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	That's not enough?	25:15
Kate Ellis	I want to hear more.	25:16
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, we grew our own corn. From the corn, they'd bring the corn to the mill. He'd grind the corn, he'd make cornmeal. And then they had another thing would come out there, was grits. And your cornmeal was for supper, and your grits was for dinner. And they had no meat market.	25:19
Kate Ellis	Really?	25:48
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No.	25:49
Kate Ellis	So there was no meat around here?	25:49
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes. They would get a group together, and every Saturday, one would kill a bull, or cow, or something, and then they would divide this meat that would last them the week.	25:51
Kate Ellis	I see.	26:10
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Because they had no refrigerator to keep the meat.	26:10
Kate Ellis	So this was, did you call out a boucherie?	26:17
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	26:18
Kate Ellis	Okay.	26:18
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah, there was a boucherie.	26:18
Kate Ellis	Let me ask you something about that. As far as dividing the meat, do you remember, how was it decided who would get what meat?	26:24
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. I really don't know. I guess I was too young for that.	26:35
Kate Ellis	Yeah. To see how they would divide it up?	26:36
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. But I know every week, somebody had to go get our share.	26:42
Kate Ellis	Somebody from your family?	26:45
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	26:46
Kate Ellis	Where would you go? To the [indistinct 00:26:49]?	26:47
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, they had a country store, that they would kill those — That's where they would kill them at.	26:48
Kate Ellis	Is that the same country store where you did your shopping? Is that the country store in Delcambre?	26:54
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. That was one in the country. Yes. That's not the one in town of Delcambre.	27:02
Kate Ellis	Oh, okay. This was a little other store?	27:04
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. Uh-huh. In the country. It wasn't too very far from our house.	27:07
Kate Ellis	Oh, okay.	27:12
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm. And they had a slaughterhouse [indistinct 00:27:17], when they used to bring the cattles and kill them.	27:13
Kate Ellis	Okay. And so — Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead.	27:19
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And mostly everybody in the country raised pig. And when they would kill the pigs, they would send their friend a roast. So when everybody would kill a hog, they owed somebody a piece. So they were sure to send that person a piece of their pig. They didn't have no refrigerator or freezer. What they would do do was salted the meat down, and put it in a crocker, and cover that crocker, and that meat would keep in there.	27:24
Kate Ellis	I see.	28:03
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Or they'd strip it, cut it in strips, seasoned it well, and dry it on the line. And they'd call that tasseau.	28:04
Kate Ellis	Tasseau.	28:11
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	They would do that with pig and beef, and they would also make fresh sausage and dry them on the line. When those sausage would be dry from being on the line, they would take them in at night and put them back on the next day, when they'd be dry enough, they'd put them in a sack, and tie them up, and hang them up somewhere.	28:15
Kate Ellis	Well, do you know how many families would be included in the boucherie? I mean, this is something it sounds like—	28:41
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No, I really don't know. No, I really don't know.	28:49
Kate Ellis	But do you think, was it a — How are we doing on time?	28:53
Speaker 1	[indistinct 00:28:59].	28:57
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. They're going to give commodities until 3:00.	28:59
Kate Ellis	Okay. Do you think it was pretty much the same families every week, though, that [indistinct 00:29:11] sharing?	29:06
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, it was the same group.	29:11
Kate Ellis	Okay.	29:14
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	It was the same group of—	29:14
Kate Ellis	So there was a group of people.	29:15
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. Mm-hmm.	29:15
Kate Ellis	And so every week, a different person—	29:16
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And everybody knew everybody.	29:18
Kate Ellis	I bet they did. And everybody knew whose turn it was next to kill—	29:22
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	29:25
Kate Ellis	— the hog, or the cow.	29:26
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. They knew how their name came down, how their name would fall.	29:28
Kate Ellis	That's interesting. I mean, that sounds like a fairly well thought out system as far as who was next, and who got what. Is that right? That [indistinct 00:29:49].	29:32
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Somebody's driving into the driveway.	29:49
Kate Ellis	Do you have a visitor?	29:50
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. It's in my driveway.	29:51
Kate Ellis	[indistinct 00:29:56].	29:52
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And this year, my daughter's not coming, so I'm not canning this year. I'm just going to put it in the freezer.	29:57
Kate Ellis	What, the okra?	30:01
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	30:02
Kate Ellis	But now you'll can these pears that came in?	30:03
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	30:07
Kate Ellis	Wow.	30:08
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I don't know no other way to put pears, but to can them.	30:09
Kate Ellis	Yeah.	30:12
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	That's how I came up doing it.	30:12
Kate Ellis	Is canning the pears?	30:14
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm. Yeah. We used to can pears. We used to can figs. We never had too much peaches, though.	30:16
Kate Ellis	Huh. I wonder why. There just weren't a lot around?	30:25
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	There wasn't too many peach trees.	30:30
Kate Ellis	There's something you had said—	30:37
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Did that make sense, what I said?	30:38
Kate Ellis	Oh, you mean with the boucherie?	30:40
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	With everything. That makes—	30:41
Kate Ellis	Yes. Everything.	30:44
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Oh, okay.	30:45
Kate Ellis	Absolutely. Oh, yeah. This is very educational.	30:46
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	If I'd have found your number, I'd have called you back and tell you, "Don't come."	30:50
Kate Ellis	Really? Well, I'm glad I just showed up.	30:53
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	But I couldn't find your number. I don't know where I put it.	30:57
Kate Ellis	All right. Well, can I ask you a few more things?	31:02
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	31:03
Kate Ellis	Okay. Oh, I know what I wanted to ask you. You have these families who participated in the boucherie, and who all knew each other. Did they share other things as well?	31:03
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. Not that I know of. It was just the meat.	31:20
Kate Ellis	It was the meat?	31:23
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	31:23
Kate Ellis	And it was a weekly thing?	31:24
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. And everybody grew their own vegetables.	31:25
Kate Ellis	For their own families?	31:28
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	31:29
Kate Ellis	So will you tell me a bit more about the community that you came up in? You said it was country. There was a church and a school. How far away was the church from where you lived?	31:30
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, it was about the same distance of the school. Three miles.	31:43
Kate Ellis	Oh, okay. Was the church right by the school?	31:49
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Not too far apart.	31:51
Kate Ellis	I see.	31:52
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No.	31:52
Kate Ellis	And it was a Catholic church?	31:53
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	31:54
Kate Ellis	And you had mentioned earlier that it was segregated, that you would—	31:56
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. Mm-hmm.	32:02
Kate Ellis	Will you tell me a bit more about that? You would sit in the back of the church, or—	32:08
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Not necessarily in the back, but we had a portion that was divided for us. It was still back of the White folks, and they had the confession box in between us and them, so I guess we couldn't touch one other.	32:08
Kate Ellis	Oh, god. Right. Couldn't breathe on one another.	32:23
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. Well, it was something like the bus and the train. A long time ago, you had to sit there. You had to sit in the back, whether you wanted to or not. Not only the bus, on the train, too. Because when I came to school here in New Iberia, my mom and them didn't have the transportation to come get me and bring me back, so I had to ride the train or the bus. And I'm sure I had to sit back there.	32:28
Kate Ellis	Right. Now, when you came to school here, what school did you come to?	32:57
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	St. Edward.	33:06
Kate Ellis	Oh, okay. So you attended St. Edward's?	33:08
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	33:13
Kate Ellis	Oh, all right.	33:13
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	One year.	33:13
Kate Ellis	Okay. That was high school?	33:13
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. That was in seventh grade.	33:16
Kate Ellis	Okay. All right.	33:18
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And I attended eighth school in Port Arthur.	33:22
Kate Ellis	Eighth grade, to Port Arthur?	33:27
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm. Lincoln Public high.	33:29
Kate Ellis	Now, why did you go to Port Arthur?	33:32
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	That's who wanted me. I was living with family.	33:38
Kate Ellis	Oh, I see. So you had an aunt or an uncle or something like that in Port Arthur?	33:43
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I was what?	33:50
Kate Ellis	When you said you were living with family in Port Arthur, were they your aunts and uncles or something?	33:51
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.	33:57
Kate Ellis	Okay. And they sent for you to come stay there?	33:57
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	They came and got me.	34:00
Kate Ellis	They came and got you. How long were you there for?	34:01
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	One year.	34:05
Kate Ellis	Do you know why they came to get you?	34:07
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, I guess it was there was no other way for me to attend school.	34:11
Kate Ellis	Oh. Well, let me ask you this then. Did the school that you attended out in the country, that you walked to, did that just go to sixth grade?	34:18
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	34:28
Kate Ellis	I see. So you spent seventh grade at St. Edward's.	34:29
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	34:32
Kate Ellis	How did you get to school every day at St. Edward's?	34:33
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I was living with my auntie.	34:35
Kate Ellis	And she lived in New Iberia?	34:37
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes. Uh-huh.	34:38
Kate Ellis	I see.	34:39
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And she had children attending school, too.	34:41
Kate Ellis	Okay. So you all went to school together?	34:44
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	34:46
Kate Ellis	And why didn't you go there the following year to St. Edward's?	34:48
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, my auntie from Port Arthur wanted me.	34:52
Kate Ellis	I see. So they came and got you.	34:55
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	34:59
Kate Ellis	Did they have a car?	34:59
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	35:00
Kate Ellis	How did they come get you?	35:01
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	They had a car.	35:01
Kate Ellis	Okay.	35:02
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And my uncle was working for the Gulf Refining Company.	35:04
Kate Ellis	The Gulf Refining Company?	35:08
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm. Out of Port Arthur.	35:10
Kate Ellis	Oh, like the gulf. Oh, like oil?	35:14
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	35:21
Kate Ellis	Okay. I see. And then what happened after eighth grade?	35:22
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	They pulled me out of school to teach.	35:24
Kate Ellis	Okay. So that's when they pulled you out?	35:26
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	35:28
Kate Ellis	Now, will you tell me about that? Who pulled you out of out of school to teach?	35:29
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	The priest.	35:35
Kate Ellis	The priest of what school?	35:36
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	The priest of [indistinct 00:35:40].	35:38
Kate Ellis	Okay.	35:40
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Let me see what his name was. Castell? Father Castell, I think his name was.	35:43
Kate Ellis	Father Castell?	35:48
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	35:48
Kate Ellis	And he knew that you were a bright student?	35:51
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I guess he did. I don't know.	35:55
Kate Ellis	Well, because what did he do? Did he go to your parents and say—	35:57
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	36:01
Kate Ellis	— "I'd like your daughter, I'd like Maude to come and teach"?	36:02
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, I don't know how the whole procedure went.	36:05
Kate Ellis	Okay.	36:08
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	But I do know I was pulled out of school to teach in that private school. And I had to teach prayers and catechism too.	36:08
Kate Ellis	Which school did you teach in? In the Catholic—	36:16
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	St. Joseph.	36:21
Kate Ellis	Oh. Taught in St. Joseph, which was in Delcambre?	36:22
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	36:31
Kate Ellis	Okay. So you taught the prayers and catechism, and what else did you—	36:32
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	From first to sixth.	36:38
Kate Ellis	Were you the only teacher?	36:40
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes.	36:44
Kate Ellis	Wow.	36:44
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yes. And you know what they did me one year? I taught those children their prayers and catechism in French, and before they made their First Communion, I had to teach them all that back in English.	36:46
Kate Ellis	Oh, you're kidding.	36:56
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No.	36:57
Kate Ellis	So you taught them in French first, and then in English?	36:58
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, just that one time. I used to have two different classes. A French class and an English class.	37:02
Kate Ellis	For the same students, or for different students?	37:09
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. For different students.	37:12
Kate Ellis	So one group of students you'd teach in English, and one group of students you'd teach in French?	37:13
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. It all depend how they had beginning their learning, you know?	37:18
Kate Ellis	Wow.	37:22
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And I got to teaching French catechism, because I had brothers, and my mama didn't want to pay to send all of them to catechism. So she brought me to a lady could teach me my catechism in French, so I could teach the others.	37:22
Kate Ellis	Okay. Wow. Huh. And so then, I remember you had said this earlier, that you taught for three years?	37:41
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. Two.	37:57
Kate Ellis	Two years.	37:58
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm.	37:58
Kate Ellis	And then they hired somebody who had a diploma?	38:00
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. They got somebody out of Port Arthur.	38:03
Kate Ellis	So then what happened to you? What did you do after you taught, then?	38:06
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I didn't do nothing until I got married.	38:11
Kate Ellis	You lived at home, and did you help in the fields? And then when you say you didn't do anything—	38:13
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, yes. I done plant sugar cane. I done cut sugar cane. I done picked cotton. I done dug sweet potatoes. I done hoed. The only thing I couldn't do was plow. I couldn't hold a plow up, but I tried.	38:19
Kate Ellis	Wow.	38:32
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	But I try.	38:37
Kate Ellis	When you were coming up, I remember you'd mentioned that your parents were sharecroppers.	38:38
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	38:43
Kate Ellis	Because their farm wasn't large enough—	38:43
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	That's right.	38:45
Kate Ellis	— to fully support the family. Did you help them in the fields during harvest season?	38:45
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Sure. Sure. I did everything but plow.	38:50
Kate Ellis	Yeah. When you were a little girl, coming up?	38:54
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	We all had to work.	38:58
Kate Ellis	All your brothers and sisters?	39:00
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm. No, my sister was dead.	39:01
Kate Ellis	Oh, okay.	39:03
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, she was—	39:04
Kate Ellis	She was an older sister?	39:06
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No, she was younger than me.	39:07
Kate Ellis	Okay. So let me just ask, as far as what your years were like when you were young, would you start school right after harvest season? I mean, did you go to school year round, or did it sort of depend on the crops?	39:08
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. We went to school just the same amount of months and the same time that the White children went to school. And us, we had to buy our books. We had to buy our books, because it was a private school. So after one or two years, they started giving us books from the White, but they were used books, but we didn't have to buy them.	39:32
Kate Ellis	Wow. What were your teachers like?	40:00
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Huh?	40:06
Kate Ellis	What were your teachers like in your school, in your country school? Who were your teachers in this private school?	40:06
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, they had some came from out of town. One of them was my auntie, and she was kind of rough.	40:16
Kate Ellis	She was rough?	40:24
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah. She was rough. She wanted us to learn faster than what we did. And some of them teachers, I don't really know where they were from. I really don't, because we wasn't allowed to ask question.	40:27
Kate Ellis	Really?	40:44
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. We wasn't allowed to ask question. Because if people were talking, you had better get out of the way. You wasn't supposed to hear what they were talking about.	40:46
Kate Ellis	What do you mean, if you weren't supposed to have any — You mean when you said that you had to get out of the way—	40:58
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, you wasn't supposed to hear their conversation.	41:07
Kate Ellis	Oh, I see.	41:13
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	So if you can't hear, you can't butt in, either. All right.	41:13
Kate Ellis	So you didn't ask questions?	41:21
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No, we had better not. Yeah.	41:22
Kate Ellis	Why was that?	41:29
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Hmm?	41:29
Kate Ellis	Why? Why?	41:31
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Tough people.	41:32
Kate Ellis	Tough people.	41:34
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	You wasn't even allowed to question your own parents. If you had something you didn't know, you had better bounce out of it.	41:40
Kate Ellis	Really?	41:49
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	41:51
Kate Ellis	So I know you're looking at your watch, so we can wrap this up soon. Can I ask you a few more questions about your — You had just talked about, before, again, we started talking on tape, about life in the country. And it doesn't sound like you particularly liked — I mean, it sounds like it was a hard life.	41:55
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	It was. It was. If you wanted to poo-poo at night, you poo-poo in the slop jar, and you cover it up. Now, if somebody else want to pee-pee after you, you're smelling that.	42:24
Kate Ellis	Yeah.	42:37
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No, it wasn't easy. Like I told you, and you didn't have no bathtub. You used a washtub to take a bath, and you had to warm the water in tea kettles.	42:41
Kate Ellis	Wow.	42:55
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-hmm. Boy, it's different now. I feel rich now.	42:56
Kate Ellis	Do you? Yeah. Huh. You'd also mentioned, you said that it — And I wonder if you would just talk about this a little bit more. Living out in the rural area, it felt like a prison to you, because you had no place to go. What do you mean? Can you tell me more about that? What was that like? Did you feel like you wanted to be able to go somewhere, or—	43:01
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Not at that time, no. You were satisfied with what you had. You couldn't dispute nothing. Wouldn't have helped anyway. Now, sometimes the family wanted to go visit, you'd hitch up the wagon. Had too many for the buggy, you'd hitch up the wagon. And more often the buggy was broken than fixed.	43:27
Kate Ellis	Really? So is it just in looking back that you feel that it was like a prison? I mean, when you described it that way earlier—	43:53
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	At that time, it was all right, because we didn't know other way.	44:06
Kate Ellis	Yeah.	44:09
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	We didn't know other way.	44:10
Kate Ellis	So I guess what I'm saying is, what made you describe it that way to me?	44:13
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	I just got a little bit more sense now.	44:22
Kate Ellis	I see.	44:23
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	But at that time, everything was all right.	44:27
Kate Ellis	Okay.	44:41
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Everything was all right at that time.	44:41
Kate Ellis	I see.	44:41
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	And so far as recreation, we didn't have any. We didn't have any.	44:42
Kate Ellis	Did you have many neighbors around you?	44:46
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. They were far apart. Yeah. You had relatives living, but not too close. It was a family country.	44:51
Kate Ellis	It was a family country? What do you mean by that?	45:02
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Well, it was only family living around there. Yeah.	45:09
Kate Ellis	Did you have much interaction with White folks at that time?	45:15
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No.	45:18
Kate Ellis	No?	45:18
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Mm-mm. Not us, because we had to walk, and they were riding. No. Nobody would bother. We wouldn't bother nobody, and they wouldn't bother us.	45:20
Kate Ellis	They wouldn't?	45:36
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No.	45:36
Kate Ellis	So there was no — I've heard of different communities where there were groups, like there was a group called the regulators.	45:37
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No, we didn't have no groups.	45:46
Kate Ellis	Yeah.	45:47
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	No. We didn't have no such thing as groups. No.	45:48
Kate Ellis	Like groups of White folks or whatever?	45:53
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	They were them, and we were us.	45:55
Kate Ellis	And they were pretty separate?	45:59
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	Yeah.	46:00
Kate Ellis	I see. So then after you had your school job, and then you went back to helping your family work in the fields and cut sugar, and then you got married? How did you meet your husband?	46:00
Maude Broussard Jean Baptiste	When I was at St. Edward, he had a sister going to St. Edward, too. And one day her friend wanted to go see her, and me and then my friend happened to be there. So they took us for the ride, and that's how I met my husband.	46:22
Kate Ellis	Oh, wow.	46:43

Kate Ellis	You said that he didn't have a car, so you were courting by writing. So did he live in New Iberia? Where did he live?	0:01
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	He was living at the Spanish Lake.	0:08
Kate Ellis	The Spanish Lake? He was living by the Spanish Lake and you were living near Delcambre?	0:11
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	By UTIG.	0:22
Kate Ellis	By UTIG. Okay. So you'd correspond with each other. How long did you correspond with each other?	0:24
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Oh, yes. So I don't remember the exact time. But when he would get a ride, he would come. There was a White boy used to take him by the house, but he couldn't take him anytime he wanted to come. This White boy was his neighbor and they had a car.	0:30
Kate Ellis	Oh. And they were friends?	0:51
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	0:52
Kate Ellis	A White boy? Huh? What did you think of the White boy? Was he a nice guy? I mean.	0:54
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I wish I could meet him now.	0:57
Kate Ellis	Really?	0:59
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah. To tell him I appreciated that.	1:00
Kate Ellis	Wow. So what would the White boy do while you and your husband were visiting?	1:03
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	He'd go take a ride somewhere.	1:09
Kate Ellis	I see. So he drop your husband down and then—	1:11
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah. He'd go ride around somewhere.	1:12
Kate Ellis	And then come back.	1:15
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I never knew where he went.	1:15
Kate Ellis	Really?	1:17
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	But he would drop him home and he'd—	1:17
Kate Ellis	Did he ever come in the house or would he just drop him off? And.	1:19
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I don't remember if he ever came in the house. I don't even remember how I met him. I guess I met him through my husband coming home and they used to call him Booze Gundrum.	1:23
Kate Ellis	They used to do what?	1:38
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Call him Booze.	1:39
Kate Ellis	This guy? Booze?	1:40
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	And his last name was Gundrum.	1:43
Kate Ellis	Gundrum. That sounds like an unusual name. Huh. Wow. And so where did your husband and you live once you got married?	1:47
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Back at Spanish Lake. I forgot how they call that other place. We were living in the country.	2:01
Kate Ellis	Okay. And what did he do while you—	2:06
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	What did he do for a living? Working at 50 cents a day, working in the field.	2:09
Kate Ellis	Wow.	2:15
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	50 cents a day.	2:18
Kate Ellis	In the fields. Cutting cane?	2:22
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Anything they had to do in the field.	2:24
Kate Ellis	I see. So what changed that he finally became— Well, let's see. He worked in the field around the time that you were married. And then what did he do after that?	2:26
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	He worked at [indistinct 00:02:47] Factory. After he got tired of living in the country and working for 50 cents a day, we moved to St. Martinville and he worked at [indistinct 00:02:58] Factory.	2:44
Kate Ellis	I see. So did you all move to St. Martinville at that point?	2:59
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	3:05
Kate Ellis	I see.	3:05
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	It was just me and him.	3:07
Kate Ellis	Okay. So you didn't have any kids at that?	3:09
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	No.	3:10
Kate Ellis	Okay. And so what kind of factory was that?	3:11
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Well, they did vegetable and during the weather they did sugar cane.	3:15
Kate Ellis	Did you work during that period of time?	3:20
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	No.	3:22
Kate Ellis	Oh, sorry. So he'd go and work there. And so from there, where did you go?	3:23
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Well, where did we go from there? That's when he went on a defense job and got his own cut off.	3:31
Kate Ellis	Okay. And then where was the defense job located?	3:37
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	In Lake Charles.	3:45
Kate Ellis	Okay. So you moved around a little bit.	3:46
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I didn't go with him.	3:51
Kate Ellis	Oh.	3:53
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Not me. I didn't go with him when he went.	3:53
Kate Ellis	You stayed in St. Martinville?	3:55
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	3:56
Kate Ellis	Did you have children at that time?	3:58
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	4:00
Kate Ellis	So you stayed?	4:01
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I had one and I had lost one.	4:02
Kate Ellis	Oh.	4:04
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I lost my first one.	4:04
Kate Ellis	When it was an infant?	4:09
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	4:11
Kate Ellis	Wow.	4:15
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yvonne did. The first one. Vonne did.	4:15
Kate Ellis	So it sounds like from the defense job then, he must have taken a while to recover from that accident.	4:28
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yes. And his lawyer he had, that's the one that told him about a place out in the country. We bought a farm out in the country with that money from his arm.	4:36
Kate Ellis	Oh.	4:48
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	We bought a farm out in the country and we lived there until he got killed.	4:48
Kate Ellis	Oh, I see. And so was it a productive farm and is that how you supported yourselves?	4:53
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	5:02
Kate Ellis	From the farm, from raising crops and selling them. And then, but your husband also drove a bus at that time, too?	5:03
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yes.	5:10
Kate Ellis	Okay. Which part of the country, what town was that in? Where the farm was that you bought?	5:11
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	By UTIG.	5:20
Kate Ellis	Okay. So you went back to that same, okay.	5:21
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	By UTIG.	5:25
Kate Ellis	And so at that point you had—	5:27
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	— No, no, that's not true. It was the port. Joe's Shipyard. It was around Joe's Shipyard where we bought the farm.	5:29
Kate Ellis	Oh, okay. By there. Okay.	5:36
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I was raised by UTIG. I'm getting crossed. I raised by UTIG, but we bought the farm at the port.	5:40
Kate Ellis	I see.	5:48
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Because before he died, when he got killed, we had to sell a portion of our land for them to dig that commercial canal.	5:49
Kate Ellis	Oh, so you had to sell them?	6:02
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	6:03
Kate Ellis	I see. Huh. Boy. So you've really had to struggle sometimes as far as—	6:10
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	6:15
Kate Ellis	Losing your husband and— Well, let me, I get a sense that you need to go soon. Is that right? To the store?	6:17
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	No.	6:32
Kate Ellis	Not to the store.	6:32
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	They giving commodity.	6:34
Kate Ellis	Where do they take the commodities?	6:35
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	That's a governor's project.	6:39
Kate Ellis	Oh, okay. So.	6:42
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	They don't give you too many good things, but it's good to take what they give you and in case they give you something good, we don't take in the bad. God bless you. You take the bad until the good come. Because they used to give us flour. They don't give us flour anymore.	6:44
Kate Ellis	Really?	7:08
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	No. They give us corn meal.	7:08
Kate Ellis	I wonder why that changed.	7:09
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I don't know. They was giving you five pounds of flour. Not they give you five pound of corn meal. I always give mine away.	7:12
Kate Ellis	You give it away? Yeah.	7:20
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	They'll make a cornbread. I'm going to get me a little box of Jiffy Cornbread and I'm going to make corn bread.	7:22
Kate Ellis	That's right. Do you know what your husband's date of birth was? What his birthday was? What year he was born?	7:26
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I think I got that somewhere.	7:39
Kate Ellis	Well, don't worry about it if you don't have it. Do you remember how old he was when he died? When he was killed?	7:42
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	7:47
Kate Ellis	How old was he?	7:48
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	39.	7:48
Kate Ellis	Oh, that's so young. Wow. Okay. [indistinct 00:08:03] Okay. Huh. And.	7:50
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	That's my neighbor passing in my yard.	8:06
Kate Ellis	Oh.	8:14
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Let me see if I don't have that.	8:14
Kate Ellis	Okay. Well I've actually, I've gotten an approximate time so that's fine.	8:14
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Okay.	8:15
Kate Ellis	As far as, where was he born?	8:17
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	He was born around St. Martinville.	8:18
Kate Ellis	I'm sorry, in St. Martinville?	8:23
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Around St. Martinville somewhere.	8:25
Kate Ellis	Okay. Okay. And as far as what I should put down for his occupation, shall I put down school bus driver?	8:30
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah, he was a farmer also.	8:38
Kate Ellis	Okay. So I'm going to say farmer and school bus driver. Okay. And then what was your mother's name? Her full name?	8:40
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Ozita Bouyance Broussard.	8:55
Kate Ellis	Hi. Broussard. I'm sorry. Ozita?	8:56
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	O-Z-I-T-A.	9:03
Kate Ellis	O-Z-I-T-A. And her middle name again was or her maiden name?	9:04
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Bouyance. B-O-U-Y-A-N-C-E.	9:13
Kate Ellis	Okay.	9:18
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	That's French.	9:18
Kate Ellis	I love it. And she died in 1952?	9:21
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yes.	9:26
Kate Ellis	Do you know how old she was when she died?	9:28
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	62.	9:30
Kate Ellis	Okay. And where was she born? Your mother? You don't know. You know what parish she was born. Was she born, do you think, in your community?	9:31
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah. She was born around by UTIG, too. I don't know.	9:45
Kate Ellis	Okay. Well, maybe I'll just say Vermilion Parish.	9:48
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Okay.	9:55
Kate Ellis	Vermilion Parish. And what was her occupation? Housewife?	9:56
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	10:01
Kate Ellis	Okay. Was she also a sharecropper? Did she work out in the fields as well?	10:02
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I wasn't there. When she was little I wasn't there.	10:08
Kate Ellis	Okay. But when you were—	10:13
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I guess she did.	10:14
Kate Ellis	When you were coming up, she was a housewife?	10:15
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	10:17
Kate Ellis	Okay. And you didn't see her going out to work in the fields with your husband?	10:18
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	With my husband?	10:25
Kate Ellis	I'm sorry, with your father?	10:26
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Maybe I did, but I don't remember that.	10:29
Kate Ellis	Okay.	10:33
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I don't remember that.	10:33
Kate Ellis	That's okay. That's okay. And then what was your father's name?	10:34
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Adolph Jim Broussard.	10:39
Kate Ellis	And he died in 1959?	10:47
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	10:49
Kate Ellis	Do you know how old he was?	10:50
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	72.	10:50
Kate Ellis	Okay. And do you know where he was born?	10:51
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I guess around a Vermilion Parish too.	11:00
Kate Ellis	Okay. Vermilion Parish. And should I say that his occupation was a sharecropper?	11:02
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	11:11
Kate Ellis	Okay. Okay. And then can you tell me the names of your brothers and sisters, including the ones who have died?	11:11
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Let me see. I'm going to start with the oldest one.	11:27
Kate Ellis	Okay.	11:29
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Fred Broussard. Wilfred Broussard. Norris Broussard. Lloyd Broussard. And John Murphy Broussard.	11:30
Kate Ellis	John Murphy?	12:00
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	12:01
Kate Ellis	And then your sister's name?	12:07
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	May. M-A-Y. It's not just spelled M-A-E. Huh. But we used to spell it M-A-Y, like the month of May.	12:08
Kate Ellis	Oh.	12:22
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	M-A-Y is still May.	12:22
Kate Ellis	Yeah. Oh, yeah. Now, you weren't the baby, were you? Were you the youngest?	12:23
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Second to the oldest.	12:28
Kate Ellis	Oh. Oh, Okay. And can you tell me the names of your children?	12:34
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Rita Faye Laverne.	12:35
Kate Ellis	Rita Faye Laverne?	12:39
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Lawrence Jean Baptiste, Senior. No, Junior. What am I'm talking about? Junior. I call him Butch all the time. So when I call him.	12:46
Kate Ellis	You call him Butch? Is that what you said?	12:57
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah. Somebody come tell me about Lawrence. Yeah. I don't know who that is. And James Jean Baptiste is the youngest one.	12:59
Kate Ellis	Okay. When were they each born?	13:10
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	I have to get up now.	13:17
Kate Ellis	Okay. No, no. Please don't get up. Please don't. I don't want you to get up. No, really. No. It's really beautiful. Do you make a lot of your own clothes? So your mom taught you how to sew? Do you have any, you have grandchildren?	13:18
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	17.	13:37
Kate Ellis	Oh, great. Okay. And your children, were they all born in Iberia Parish?	13:37
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Let me see. Butch, I forgot which one was born in St. Martinville. I think it was Rita.	13:49
Kate Ellis	Okay.	14:01
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	The others were born in Iberia Parish.	14:02
Kate Ellis	Okay. Now, as far as where you've lived, I'm going to say that you've lived in either Vermilion Parish or Iberia Parish. I guess you've lived in Vermilion Parish, Iberia Parish. And St. Martin Parish.	14:15
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	That's for what?	14:32
Kate Ellis	It's just as far as the places that you've lived in.	14:34
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Oh, okay. Yeah.	14:37
Kate Ellis	Okay. I'm just going to write up like that. What was the name of that school, first school that you attended that went to sixth grade?	14:38
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	St. Joseph.	14:50
Kate Ellis	Okay. St. Joseph. And that was in Delcambre? And that was from primary to?	14:54
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Sixth.	15:03
Kate Ellis	Sixth grade? Okay. And then you were at St. Edwards for one year in New Iberia. St. Edwards, where's?	15:08
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	That's where you're right. Say. You know Iberia. Yeah. Okay.	15:22
Kate Ellis	Okay.	15:25
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	15:25
Kate Ellis	Let's see. New Iberia. And that was seventh grade?	15:33
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	15:35
Kate Ellis	And then Lincoln?	15:35
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Lincoln Public High.	15:40
Kate Ellis	Public High.	15:45
Kate Ellis	Port Arthur, Texas for eighth grade. Okay. And then as far as your work history is concerned, your first job was as a teacher in St. Joseph's?	15:47
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	16:12
Kate Ellis	As far as, I mean, besides working in fields and—	16:12
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah.	16:16
Kate Ellis	Okay. Teacher St. Joseph's. And you were around 18 or 19 during that time?	16:18
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Let me see. I got married, I was 24. Two years before that. 24, 19? No, about 19, I guess. 18 or 19, something like that.	16:34
Kate Ellis	Okay. Okay. And then you're married and you didn't work for a while. And then when your husband was killed, that's when you became a bus driver?	16:50
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yes.	16:58
Kate Ellis	Okay. Bus driver. And your employer was the Iberia Parish?	16:58
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	School Board.	17:08
Kate Ellis	Okay. Did you enjoy driving the bus?	17:09
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Of course. I didn't have nothing else to support myself because social security had just came out in '55 for the farmers. And my husband had never filed.	17:17
Kate Ellis	Huh. So you weren't going to get social security from that?	17:33
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Well, them good White folks helped me. I paid them two years that he hadn't paid. And I got $33 a month for the children. It wasn't much, but I got that.	17:35
Kate Ellis	From when he died, from when he was killed? I see. Oh, I see. Wow. So it was something.	17:46
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Yeah. I mean, it was two years and he hadn't paid, so they had me to take that option and pay that so I could get a little. And that helped.	17:54
Kate Ellis	You worked as a bus driver from '57 until you retired?	18:09
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	'78, yes.	18:14
Kate Ellis	1978. Okay.	18:15
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Till I retired.	18:18
Kate Ellis	Now, when I talked to Veronica Rochan, she made it sound like you are a pretty busy woman, or at least that you used to be. What kind of things would you do?	18:20
Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste	Unhook me and I'll show you.	18:34
Kate Ellis	Okay.	18:35

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Maude Jean-Batiste interview recording, 1994 August 09

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Name: Maude Broussard Jean-Batiste; Date of birth: 1913-12-27; Place of birth: Vermillion parish LA; Occupation(s): bus driver; Residence: New Iberia, LA
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