John Moye interview recording, 1993 July 29

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Karen Ferguson	—James City?	0:01
John Henry Moye	No.	0:01
Karen Ferguson	No? Where were you born?	0:03
John Henry Moye	Leesville.	0:04
Karen Ferguson	Leesville.	0:06
John Henry Moye	Yep.	0:07
Karen Ferguson	And when did you come to James City?	0:08
John Henry Moye	Came while I was young.	0:12
Karen Ferguson	When you were young?	0:14
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	0:16
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. Why did your family move here?	0:17
John Henry Moye	I don't know.	0:19
Karen Ferguson	You don't know?	0:20
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	0:20
Karen Ferguson	You don't know?	0:21
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	0:21
Karen Ferguson	What was your family doing in Leesville? What did they do for a living?	0:23
John Henry Moye	They worked on the farm.	0:27
Karen Ferguson	On the farm?	0:27
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	0:27
Karen Ferguson	And what did they do when they arrived here? What did your parents for work when they arrived here?	0:32
John Henry Moye	She worked in the kitchen.	0:36
Karen Ferguson	In the, sorry?	0:39
John Henry Moye	[indistinct 00:00:42].	0:39
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay. How old were you when you arrived here?	0:48
John Henry Moye	Oh, very young.	0:51
Karen Ferguson	Very young?	0:52
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	0:52
Karen Ferguson	What was it like around here in James City when you arrived? How was it different than it is today?	0:56
John Henry Moye	All of those houses.	1:00
Karen Ferguson	Yeah.	1:00
John Henry Moye	All these houses there. But now, it has out there—it is more houses now, than what it used to be.	1:11
Karen Ferguson	Right. Were there many businesses here when you were growing up?	1:19
John Henry Moye	Yeah, not yet. Two.	1:22
Karen Ferguson	Two?	1:22
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	1:22
Karen Ferguson	What kind of businesses?	1:22
John Henry Moye	Port guard and mill.	1:22
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay.	1:22
John Henry Moye	The mill down in James City.	1:22
Karen Ferguson	A mill?	1:22
John Henry Moye	Yeah. And port guard is right down here.	1:27
Karen Ferguson	What kind of mill was it?	1:27
John Henry Moye	Lumber mill.	1:39
Karen Ferguson	Lumber mill. And did your father work there?	1:44
John Henry Moye	A little while. My daddy lived in New York.	1:45
Karen Ferguson	He lived in New York?	1:45
John Henry Moye	Yeah, that's where he went.	1:45
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay. All right. So you grew up with your mother?	1:45
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	1:56
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? How many brothers and sisters did you have?	2:01
John Henry Moye	One sister.	2:03
Karen Ferguson	One sister?	2:03
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	2:03
Karen Ferguson	Did you have any other kinfolks living in James City?	2:13
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	2:14
Karen Ferguson	Who? Who was that?	2:50
John Henry Moye	The Foy's and the Lee's.	2:50
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay.	2:50
John Henry Moye	And that was it, so—ain't no Moyes down here but me.	2:50
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Okay.	2:50
John Henry Moye	And Lees, the boy, they stay down there, right there.	2:50
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay.	2:50
John Henry Moye	And sometimes they [indistinct 00:02:51].	2:50
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. Did you do things with your kinfolk? Were you close family?	2:56
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	2:59
Karen Ferguson	What kinds of things would you do together?	2:59
John Henry Moye	Oh, depends on if I go for—I'd go out fishing.	3:03
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm.	3:06
John Henry Moye	Crabbing.	3:06
Karen Ferguson	Right.	3:06
John Henry Moye	That's about all.	3:06
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. How about the people around here? Were you close to the neighbors around you?	3:07
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	3:27
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. What kinds of things would people do to help each other out?	3:28
John Henry Moye	Give them stuff, sometimes they would want to buy something on the side of [indistinct 00:03:34]—	3:32
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	3:34
John Henry Moye	—and they'd get it from them.	3:34
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Right. What kind of house—what was your house like that you grew up in?	3:34
John Henry Moye	Yeah. It was a house that goes like that.	4:02
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay. Okay.	4:02
John Henry Moye	It burned, it caught afire.	4:17
Karen Ferguson	It burned in a fire?	4:17
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	4:23
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? When was that?	4:32
John Henry Moye	Oh, years.	4:32
Karen Ferguson	Yeah.	4:32
John Henry Moye	Years ago.	4:32
Karen Ferguson	Yeah, yeah. When you were growing up, were there adults in the neighborhood who you really liked? Men in the neighborhood who looked after you or who you would spend some time with?	4:35
John Henry Moye	Oh, they're dead.	4:45
Karen Ferguson	But when they were—who were they?	4:45
John Henry Moye	Ike Long, and then McKinsley White. That's about all.	4:45
Karen Ferguson	What would you do with them?	4:45
John Henry Moye	I helped them on—they had a little farm they worked on. A garden that—they called it a garden then. Started growing a little garden that they raised stuff in.	4:45
Karen Ferguson	So you did some farming with them?	5:10
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	5:45
Karen Ferguson	Gardening? Okay. Where did you go to school here?	5:45
John Henry Moye	Right down there.	5:55
Karen Ferguson	Did you like school?	5:58
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	6:07
Karen Ferguson	What did you like about it?	6:07
John Henry Moye	About every day, you learn something new. I like that.	6:07
Karen Ferguson	Right. Were there any teachers that you admired?	6:14
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	6:17
Karen Ferguson	Did they live in James City?	6:20
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	6:21
Karen Ferguson	No? Where did they live?	6:21
John Henry Moye	In Kidville.	6:21
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay.	6:21
John Henry Moye	They had a—I think it's gone. About way on the other side of the railway.	6:21
Karen Ferguson	Uh-uh. Were you able to go to high school?	6:43
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	6:44
Karen Ferguson	No? Did you go out to work?	6:45
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	6:47
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? What kind of work did you do?	6:47
John Henry Moye	I played with—I went down before the accident. Getting the geese and that stuff.	6:47
Karen Ferguson	Did you like that work? Yeah? What kind of other work have you done during your life?	6:48
John Henry Moye	I drove a taxi a long time.	6:50
Karen Ferguson	You drove a taxi?	7:25
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	7:25
Karen Ferguson	Where did you—what company did you drive for?	7:26
John Henry Moye	The [indistinct 00:07:30].	7:28
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	7:28
John Henry Moye	And then when I got out of school, I drove trucks. I was a truck driver, working on a fish ship.	7:28
Karen Ferguson	You worked at fishing?	7:28
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	7:28
Karen Ferguson	For how long? Where was that? Was that here in James City?	7:49
John Henry Moye	No.	7:51
Karen Ferguson	Where was that?	7:52
John Henry Moye	Raleigh.	7:53
Karen Ferguson	In what? In Raleigh?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Oh. Okay. Huh. What did you like about driving a taxi?	7:54
John Henry Moye	I didn't like that a lot.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	You didn't like it?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Why not?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Because some people, they get in there and go where they're going, going to get out talking about they don't have enough money.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Right.	7:54
John Henry Moye	Things they should have.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Right.	7:54
John Henry Moye	I said, "That day ain't going to ever come."	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	7:54
John Henry Moye	All right. That's why I don't like it there.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. What did you do for a good time when you were—after you left school? What kinds of things were there, that you could do, when you wanted to have a good time?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Nothing.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Yeah?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Just sit around and talk, and drink wild drinks, and tell jokes and stuff. That's all.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Did you ever get married?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	No?	7:54
John Henry Moye	No.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Did you have to work while you were going to school? No?	7:54
John Henry Moye	After you get out.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	After you got out of school?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Were you ever in the Army?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? You were in World War II?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Did you go overseas?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Where did you go?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Hawaii.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Hawaii. Okay.	7:54
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm. And I went to [indistinct 00:10:25], but that's about three weeks working though.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	7:54
John Henry Moye	They ain't paying.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Right.	7:54
John Henry Moye	And then I signed up, and I came home.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	What did you do after you came home?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Nothing. I wasn't home long before I left.	7:54
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. And went to?	7:54
John Henry Moye	Raleigh.	7:55
Karen Ferguson	Went to Raleigh.	8:03
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	8:03
Karen Ferguson	Did you look Raleigh better than James City?	10:54
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	11:09
Karen Ferguson	Why was that?	11:09
John Henry Moye	A lot more over there. More places to go.	11:09
Karen Ferguson	Right. What kinds of things did you do there that you couldn't do in James City?	11:09
John Henry Moye	Nothing. I worked on a fish truck.	11:09
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Did you earn more money there than you had in James City?	11:22
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	11:24
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. Right. Where did your family come from? They came from Leesville originally?	11:34
John Henry Moye	Right down in there.	11:41
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Do you remember anything about your grandparents?	11:41
John Henry Moye	No, I don't.	11:45
Karen Ferguson	No?	11:45
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh. The only thing I know, was anything.	11:54
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. Okay. You said your father went up to New York City, did any of your other relatives or friends go north?	11:54
John Henry Moye	Uh—	11:59
Karen Ferguson	Uh-uh?	11:59
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	12:01
Karen Ferguson	Yeah?	12:01
John Henry Moye	Some cousins. I have a few cousins up there.	12:01
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm.	12:01
John Henry Moye	And some brothers, by him.	12:01
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. Did you ever go north?	12:20
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	12:23
Karen Ferguson	Never?	12:23
John Henry Moye	I went up there—we went up there about a week or something like that.	12:35
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm.	12:37
John Henry Moye	I didn't like it.	12:37
Karen Ferguson	Why didn't you like it?	12:37
John Henry Moye	Too rough.	12:37
Karen Ferguson	Too rough?	12:37
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	12:37
Karen Ferguson	What kind of roughness was there up there?	12:39
John Henry Moye	Like about to get shot or something, and get killed.	12:39
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Was there anything else didn't like about there?	12:52
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	12:53
Karen Ferguson	No? Was there anything you did like?	12:56
John Henry Moye	No.	13:01
Karen Ferguson	No? No. How long did you stay up there?	13:04
John Henry Moye	A week.	13:06
Karen Ferguson	A week. Okay.	13:06
John Henry Moye	I went about five, six times.	13:06
Karen Ferguson	Yeah?	13:06
John Henry Moye	But stayed about a week at any time.	13:11
Karen Ferguson	Right. When you were growing up, did people help each other out in James City?	13:13
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	13:19
Karen Ferguson	What did they do for each other?	13:24
John Henry Moye	Everything.	13:25
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm.	13:41
John Henry Moye	[indistinct 00:13:41] if they're eating something they're having.	13:41
Karen Ferguson	Did you go to church when you were growing up?	13:54
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	13:54
Karen Ferguson	Where did you go?	13:57
John Henry Moye	Right down there.	13:57
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. What church is that?	14:01
John Henry Moye	Pilgrim. Pilgrim.	14:01
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm.	14:01
John Henry Moye	Pilgrim's Chapel.	14:01
Karen Ferguson	Right. Okay. Did your mother go regularly to church?	14:08
John Henry Moye	No, she was working.	14:13
Karen Ferguson	She was working?	14:13
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	14:14
Karen Ferguson	What did she do again, to earn a living?	14:15
John Henry Moye	It was work in the kitchen.	14:20
Karen Ferguson	In the kitchen?	14:20
John Henry Moye	Yeah. Cooking.	14:20
Karen Ferguson	Where was that? In somebody's house?	14:23
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	14:24
Karen Ferguson	Okay. All right. Did she have to live there?	14:27
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh. She was home. She came home every night.	14:28
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. But she had to work on Sundays too?	14:33
John Henry Moye	Sometimes.	14:34
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Did you like church a lot? What kinds of things would you do at church?	14:34
John Henry Moye	I was president of the choir. The number two choir.	14:52
Karen Ferguson	The number two choir?	14:52
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	14:52
Karen Ferguson	Did you like to sing?	14:52
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm. When I got sick, I was put down. So now, I ain't—I don't hold no [indistinct 00:15:33] in there.	14:52
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	14:52
John Henry Moye	So I was sick, I came home.	14:52
Karen Ferguson	All right. When did you come back to James City, after being in Raleigh?	15:56
John Henry Moye	It was '46. '46.	15:57
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. '46?	16:05
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	16:05
Karen Ferguson	Okay. And you've been living here ever since?	16:10
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	16:12
Karen Ferguson	What did you do when you came back from Raleigh?	16:12
John Henry Moye	Worked out there for a fish house.	16:14
Karen Ferguson	Oh, at the fish house?	16:14
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	16:14
Karen Ferguson	Were you doing that in Raleigh as well?	16:14
John Henry Moye	I worked on a fish truck.	16:16
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. Okay.	16:35
John Henry Moye	Yep. I was working in a fish house.	16:35
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. What did you do there?	16:35
John Henry Moye	It mostly was washing them, boxing them.	16:35
Karen Ferguson	Right. Okay. How many people worked with you in that fish house?	16:47
John Henry Moye	About four.	16:49
Karen Ferguson	Four?	16:49
John Henry Moye	Most of the time, a fish boat would come in, and then they would hire more.	16:52
Karen Ferguson	Right. What has been your favorite job in your life? What job did you like the best?	17:02
John Henry Moye	I liked that fish house.	17:05
Karen Ferguson	Here in New—	17:09
John Henry Moye	Yeah, in them.	17:12
Karen Ferguson	Why did you like that?	17:13
John Henry Moye	Because they about had that—it was going some places then. Sometimes, [indistinct 00:17:27] over the trap, and you'd go out and eat down there. According to him, he's given [indistinct 00:17:34] of it back.	17:13
Karen Ferguson	Right. Do you—what were some of the places that Black people couldn't go in this area, when you were growing up?	17:47
John Henry Moye	All the cafes.	17:51
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. The cafes.	17:51
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	17:51
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	17:51
John Henry Moye	And couldn't go to hotels.	17:51
Karen Ferguson	Right.	17:51
John Henry Moye	Unless you were working there.	17:51
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. So you could work there, but you couldn't eat?	17:51
John Henry Moye	No.	17:51
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	17:51
John Henry Moye	Well, the cook would give you your food in the kitchen.	18:20
Karen Ferguson	Right.	18:34
John Henry Moye	And they'd eat in there and then come out when they call you.	18:34
Karen Ferguson	Right.	18:34
John Henry Moye	If they don't ever call you, you'd come out and eat next door.	18:34
Karen Ferguson	Right. Was it different over in James City? Did you like being over here because there were really Black people that lived here?	18:37
John Henry Moye	Huh? Yeah.	18:43
Karen Ferguson	Was it—did you like going over to New Bern?	18:43
John Henry Moye	No.	18:48
Karen Ferguson	No? Why not?	18:50
John Henry Moye	It was rough.	18:52
Karen Ferguson	Too rough?	18:53
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	18:54
Karen Ferguson	Why? What was rough about it over in New Bern?	18:54
John Henry Moye	I think it was, some of them will walk up to you, you know somebody's behind you.	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	18:57
John Henry Moye	But you don't know where they're at, where you're going to turn down. They were liable to cut you or shoot you.	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Right.	18:57
John Henry Moye	Wasn't nothing. The Ole Opry is dead.	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Right.	18:57
John Henry Moye	Today, they ain't doing nothing.	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Right. Yeah.	18:57
John Henry Moye	That's why come I can't understand the law.	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Right.	18:57
John Henry Moye	When a man kills somebody—	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Yeah.	18:57
John Henry Moye	—he ain't going to get charged.	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Yeah.	18:57
John Henry Moye	Give him the same thing you gave me.	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Right.	18:57
John Henry Moye	Those days over with.	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Yeah.	18:57
John Henry Moye	But now it's the—the lawyer you have to pay a whole lot of money now. That's what it is.	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Right.	18:57
John Henry Moye	The lawyer making the money.	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Right. Was this someone you knew who was killed?	18:57
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? Who was that?	18:57
John Henry Moye	My cousin.	18:57
Karen Ferguson	Your girlfriend?	19:02
John Henry Moye	My cousin.	19:59
Karen Ferguson	Your cousin. How was he killed?	20:00
John Henry Moye	A man came out and shot a person in the arm, and then she closed up. And then they didn't have nothing.	20:00
Karen Ferguson	Right.	20:00
John Henry Moye	Her mama closing up the place, and right in that door.	20:00
Karen Ferguson	Right.	20:00
John Henry Moye	And that's it. Just turned right around and shot him, before the day is over.	20:00
Karen Ferguson	Right.	20:00
John Henry Moye	Shot him and killed him.	20:00
Karen Ferguson	Was your cousin—did the police come?	20:01
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	20:01
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. Was the man arrested?	20:01
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	20:01
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. Did anything happen to him?	20:01
John Henry Moye	He pulled some time.	20:01
Karen Ferguson	He—yeah? Uh-huh.	20:01
John Henry Moye	And that was my cousin's funeral.	20:01
Karen Ferguson	Yeah.	20:01
John Henry Moye	Now I had another cousin, his oldest son, he killed a man.	20:01
Karen Ferguson	Huh.	20:01
John Henry Moye	Killed him dead.	20:01
Karen Ferguson	When was this?	20:01
John Henry Moye	Back in the '50s.	20:01
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? Why did he kill somebody?	21:09
John Henry Moye	Just mean.	21:09
Karen Ferguson	Just mean?	21:12
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	21:12
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. What happened to your cousin's son? Did he go to prison?	21:14
John Henry Moye	Yep.	21:20
Karen Ferguson	Yeah.	21:20
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	21:24
Karen Ferguson	Do you know a lot of people—have a lot of people you've known had to go to jail or no?	21:28
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	21:30
Karen Ferguson	Do you remember the police coming after Black people for things that they hadn't done?	21:36
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	21:43
Karen Ferguson	What kinds of things were those?	21:44
John Henry Moye	Anything.	21:45
Karen Ferguson	Uh-uh. Yeah.	21:45
John Henry Moye	Anything happen, they start looking for Black people.	21:48
Karen Ferguson	Right.	21:55
John Henry Moye	It wasn't White people going there then.	21:56
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. Do you remember—did that ever happen to you?	22:05
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	22:07
Karen Ferguson	No? Why not? How did you stay away from the police? How did you—	22:08
John Henry Moye	Well I started talking, I really didn't too much carry them. I led and would go somewhere else.	22:14
Karen Ferguson	Right.	22:14
John Henry Moye	Or go home, one.	22:14
Karen Ferguson	Right. Did your mother or your—anybody ever tell you how to stay out of trouble? Did you—	22:36
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	22:41
Karen Ferguson	How? How would she tell you?	22:45
John Henry Moye	Just don't get in too big of a crowd.	22:46
Karen Ferguson	Yeah.	22:46
John Henry Moye	Because the crowd gets too big, you be involved in it.	22:46
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. Did the police come over to James City very much? Did they protect people over here?	23:06
John Henry Moye	Not much.	23:09
Karen Ferguson	Can you remember a time when the police should have come and they didn't protect the community?	23:11
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	23:30
Karen Ferguson	No? Do you remember ever getting in trouble with Whites who weren't—not the police, but Whites coming after Black people in this area at all?	23:33
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	23:43
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. When you traveled to New York City and to other places, did you have to ride on a Jim Crow car?	23:44
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh. I always was in an automobile.	24:02
Karen Ferguson	Oh, in an automobile?	24:02
John Henry Moye	Right.	24:02
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. When you go up in the automobile, would you have to—could you stop anywhere?	24:13
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	24:26
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. Where would you stop?	24:29
John Henry Moye	Oh, yes. The filling station.	24:29
Karen Ferguson	Oh. Yeah. But when you were driving up there, if you had to stop for gas or something like that, were you able to stop? Would people give you gas?	24:29
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	24:31
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. How about if you wanted to get something to eat?	24:32
John Henry Moye	You bought something out of there.	24:33
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	24:33
John Henry Moye	But like a café? No.	24:33
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. When you came back and you worked in the fish house, did you work in James City or did you work in New Bern?	24:51
John Henry Moye	New Bern.	24:54
Karen Ferguson	New Bern?	24:56
John Henry Moye	Yes.	24:57
Karen Ferguson	Did you know anybody who could work in James City? Who got jobs in James City?	24:58
Karen Ferguson	What kinds of things did people who used to work in James City, what did they do? What were they?	25:03
John Henry Moye	Most of them worked right out there.	25:09
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	25:09
John Henry Moye	That's a problem.	25:09
Karen Ferguson	In the mill?	25:09
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	25:09
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. How about the women? What did they do?	25:09
John Henry Moye	We all worked. They had a crab person.	25:09
Karen Ferguson	A crab—crabbing?	25:09
John Henry Moye	And then I worked for a—it was a canning plant. They canned for [indistinct 00:25:51].	25:09
Karen Ferguson	Okay.	25:09
John Henry Moye	[indistinct 00:25:56]. All kinds of different stuff. But that was back there in James City.	25:09
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Was this a White man who opened this canning factory?	26:32
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm. Most of them.	26:39
Karen Ferguson	Okay.	26:39
John Henry Moye	You know him?	26:39
Karen Ferguson	No, I don't know about him. Was he a good man?	26:39
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	26:39
Karen Ferguson	Why was he good?	26:39
John Henry Moye	He had to be kind of good because he had so many Colored people with him.	26:39
Karen Ferguson	Right.	26:39
John Henry Moye	Because that's about all he had, were Colored people.	26:39
Karen Ferguson	Yeah.	26:39
John Henry Moye	They didn't have any White people.	26:39
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. So only Black people worked in the canning factory?	26:39
John Henry Moye	That's right.	26:39
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. Did he pay people well?	26:39
John Henry Moye	No. It wasn't too well.	26:41
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. When do you remember Black people in this area starting to earn a little bit more money? Was there a time when they started to earn a little more money?	26:44
John Henry Moye	Well, they started earning money—they were getting more money, I stopped—I quit working.	26:55
Karen Ferguson	After you quit work?	26:55
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	26:55
Karen Ferguson	What happened? Why did they start earning more then? What kinds of jobs were they doing then?	27:10
John Henry Moye	Some of them went out of the house cooking, but still was making more money.	27:13
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Do you remember people working at Cherry Point, and helping to build Cherry Point Marine Base? Do you remember any of those kinds of jobs?	27:37
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	27:44
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm?	27:52
John Henry Moye	But that was when I went to Raleigh.	27:52
Karen Ferguson	Okay. That was when you were in Raleigh?	27:54
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	27:54
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Now did you know anybody who worked over there in Cherry Point?	28:04
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	28:07
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? Did you ever try to get a job there? No? Why did you come back from Raleigh? Why did you leave Raleigh?	28:10
John Henry Moye	The Whites started working the hay bale I worked on. Hampton, Virginia.	28:24
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	28:49
John Henry Moye	Then I went to the truck from there.	28:50
Karen Ferguson	Yeah.	28:50
John Henry Moye	Went to Hampton, Virginia to work and came back to North Carolina, already sharp.	28:50
Karen Ferguson	Right. Okay. So you went to Virginia?	28:50
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	28:50
Karen Ferguson	Why did you—you were looking for work there or what? What were you doing?	28:52
John Henry Moye	I worked there.	28:52
Karen Ferguson	Oh, you had a job?	28:52
John Henry Moye	Oh, yeah.	28:52
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. What were you doing?	28:52
John Henry Moye	Working on a sea ship.	28:52
Karen Ferguson	Okay.	28:52
John Henry Moye	Helping them out at sea.	28:52
Karen Ferguson	Okay.	28:52
John Henry Moye	I'll tell y'all something, it took two hands.	28:52
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Right.	28:52
John Henry Moye	So me and him.	28:52
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. When you went away, did you stay in contact with people here in James City? Did you come back while you were away?	29:26
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	29:32
Karen Ferguson	Was your mother still living?	29:33
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	29:35
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? Mm-hmm. When you were working in New Bern, did people—did people in James City and New Bern, did they do things together? The Black people.	29:52
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	30:12
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Did you have many friends who lived in New Bern?	30:13
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	30:16
Karen Ferguson	No? No.	30:16
John Henry Moye	No.	30:16
Karen Ferguson	No. Did people from New Bern and James City like each other?	30:20
John Henry Moye	No.	30:26
Karen Ferguson	Why not?	30:27
John Henry Moye	I don't know.	30:28
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	30:29
John Henry Moye	I didn't have but one finger.	30:29
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. Were there things that they did? How did they show that they didn't like each other?	30:37
John Henry Moye	Just did everything they could to—against you.	30:40
Karen Ferguson	Okay. What kinds of things?	30:40
John Henry Moye	Like taking stuff and saying that you did it.	30:53
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Were people as well off here, in James City, as they were in New Bern?	31:03
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	31:10
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? Mr. Moye, do you ever remember going to a thing called a June Jordan Dance?	31:17
John Henry Moye	No.	31:17
Karen Ferguson	Were there any joints or Piccolos in this area?	31:22
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	31:38
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm.	31:38
John Henry Moye	There was one.	31:38
Karen Ferguson	One? What was it called?	31:38
John Henry Moye	Harpo's Place.	31:38
Karen Ferguson	Hop—sorry?	31:38
John Henry Moye	Harpo. Harpo.	31:38
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Uh-huh. Did you ever go to those places?	31:38
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	31:39
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. What did you do there?	31:39
John Henry Moye	Sit down.	31:39
Karen Ferguson	Sit down?	31:39
John Henry Moye	Sometimes dance.	31:39
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Did you like to dance?	31:39
John Henry Moye	Yeah, I did dance.	31:39
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? Uh-huh. Did you have any special girlfriends when you were a teenager?	31:53
John Henry Moye	Uh, no.	32:00
Karen Ferguson	No? Okay. So you—would all the young people go to the joint?	32:02
John Henry Moye	Just about.	32:26
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. What other kinds of things would you do? Did you go to the movies?	32:27
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	32:28
Karen Ferguson	Where did you go to the movies?	32:31
John Henry Moye	New Bern.	32:32
Karen Ferguson	In New Bern?	32:34
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	32:35
Karen Ferguson	Did you go to the Black theater or the White theater?	32:36
John Henry Moye	Black.	32:37
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	32:37
John Henry Moye	I ain't ever been to the Whites.	32:42
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. You never were there?	32:43
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	32:44
Karen Ferguson	Why didn't you go there?	32:45
John Henry Moye	Started to say, you couldn't go there.	32:45
Karen Ferguson	You couldn't? Even in the balcony?	32:46
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	33:10
Karen Ferguson	No? How have things changed here in James City, since you grew up here?	33:17
John Henry Moye	I don't know.	33:21
Karen Ferguson	You don't know?	33:21
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	33:21
Karen Ferguson	Do you think it's gotten better or worse here? Have—	33:43
John Henry Moye	I believe it got worse.	33:45
Karen Ferguson	Why?	33:45
John Henry Moye	Because everything people do in this place now, they have their hand out.	33:45
Karen Ferguson	Yeah.	34:12
John Henry Moye	But when it comes down to them, they don't have anything.	34:14
Karen Ferguson	Right. When you were growing up, did you ever see a doctor? Was there a doctor you could go to?	34:15
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	34:19
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. Was he here in James City?	34:19
John Henry Moye	No.	34:19
Karen Ferguson	No?	34:19
John Henry Moye	New Bern.	34:19
Karen Ferguson	In New Bern?	34:19
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	34:19
Karen Ferguson	Was he a Black doctor?	34:28
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	34:29
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. What doctor was that?	34:30
John Henry Moye	Dr. Onan.	34:31
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Did you ever have to go to the hospital when you were younger?	34:37
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	34:45
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm.	34:45
John Henry Moye	I was in the hospital, I think, and the stitches—	34:45
Karen Ferguson	Okay. How old were you when that happened?	34:45
John Henry Moye	About 50. About 50.	34:56
Karen Ferguson	50? Okay. Did you go to the White hospital here, or did you go to the—	34:57
John Henry Moye	Colored.	35:10
Karen Ferguson	—Colored? To Big Shepherd Hospital?	35:10
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	35:10
Karen Ferguson	Okay.	35:10
John Henry Moye	I went—started going to the other one. That's when Big Shepherd closed.	35:10
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Did you get good care there, do you think?	35:38
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	35:39
Karen Ferguson	When your mother—do you remember your mother having a midwife or—were you younger or older than your sister?	35:47
John Henry Moye	I was younger.	35:53
Karen Ferguson	Younger.	35:55
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	35:55
Karen Ferguson	So you were the youngest child, huh?	35:56
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	35:57
Karen Ferguson	When you were growing up, did you just live with your mother and your sister?	36:01
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	36:06
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Was there anybody else?	36:07
John Henry Moye	Grandma.	36:09
Karen Ferguson	Your grandmother. Okay.	36:09
John Henry Moye	That's right. My daddy's mama.	36:10
Karen Ferguson	What was your grandmother like? Were you close to her?	36:16
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	36:18
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. What kinds of things would she tell you about?	36:19
John Henry Moye	She was always telling me, when I used to go out, "Don't get in none of this trouble."	36:19
Karen Ferguson	Okay.	36:19
John Henry Moye	"And don't borrow nothing that doesn't belong to you."	36:19
Karen Ferguson	Right. Okay. Did she ever tell you about her childhood? About what was it like coming up for her?	36:40
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	36:44
Karen Ferguson	No? How about your mother? What kind of person was she?	36:44
John Henry Moye	She always told me too, "Don't get in nothing." And they told me if it was something I thought, leave.	36:49
Karen Ferguson	Right. Did you know any of your other grandparents? No?	37:02
John Henry Moye	Nothing but my mama's dad.	37:02
Karen Ferguson	Okay.	37:02
John Henry Moye	I knew him.	37:02
Karen Ferguson	What was he like?	37:02
John Henry Moye	I just knew him, that's all.	37:02
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Okay, Mr. Moye. I think I've about finished here. [INTERRUPTION 00:38:13] your father, after he left for New York City?	38:10
John Henry Moye	Yep.	38:18
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. When would you see him?	38:23
John Henry Moye	I saw him around '56.	38:23
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh.	38:23
John Henry Moye	And then I went up there four or five times.	39:13
Karen Ferguson	Right. So he kept contact with you and your sister, after he went up there? And your mother?	39:14
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	39:15
Karen Ferguson	Do you know what your zip code is?	39:33
John Henry Moye	28560.	39:33
Karen Ferguson	6-0? Okay, thanks. When were you born, Mr. Moye?	39:33
John Henry Moye	1913.	39:33
Karen Ferguson	1913? Do you know the day?	39:33
John Henry Moye	On March the 4th.	39:33
Karen Ferguson	March 4th? Okay. And you were born in Leesville? Where? Can you remember anything about Leesville?	39:33
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	39:33
Karen Ferguson	What can you remember?	39:33
John Henry Moye	About—back in the day. And then it was a house here and a house there.	39:33
Karen Ferguson	Right. Did your family—you said that your family was farming, is that right?	40:07
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	40:09
Karen Ferguson	Did you own your own farm?	40:10
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	40:12
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh?	40:17
John Henry Moye	But I started to tell you, it wasn't much.	40:17
Karen Ferguson	Right.	40:17
John Henry Moye	As far as I call it, it wasn't.	40:17
Karen Ferguson	Right. So your family just had enough land to have a garden?	40:31
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	40:35
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Did they work on other people's farms?	40:35
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	40:38
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? Okay. Were you old enough to work then?	40:39
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	40:39
Karen Ferguson	No? Okay. You've never been married, right?	40:48
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	40:49
Karen Ferguson	Okay. What was your mother's name?	40:49
John Henry Moye	Patience.	40:54
Karen Ferguson	Patience?	40:54
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	40:54
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Patience Moye?	40:59
John Henry Moye	Yeah. Moye-Foy.	41:00
Karen Ferguson	Okay. What was her maiden name? What was—	41:01
John Henry Moye	Foy.	41:01
Karen Ferguson	How do you spell that? F-O-Y?	41:01
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	41:01
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Do you know when she was born?	41:01
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	41:01
Karen Ferguson	No? When did she pass?	41:01
John Henry Moye	1952.	41:01
Karen Ferguson	1952. Was she born in Leesville?	41:01
John Henry Moye	No, down from them.	41:01
Karen Ferguson	Where?	41:01
John Henry Moye	Down there by Bishop School.	41:01
Karen Ferguson	Okay. And she was a cook, you said?	41:06
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	41:06
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Did cooks earn more money than some other people who worked in people's houses?	41:06
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	41:46
Karen Ferguson	No?	41:46
John Henry Moye	They didn't make any—	41:46
Karen Ferguson	Okay. And she worked for White folk?	41:55
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	41:59
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Okay. Did she ever—did the family she worked for, did they give her—you anything, or did they—did they treat her well at work, do you think?	41:59
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	42:10
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. How so? What would they do?	42:10
John Henry Moye	They gave us our house. Well, it really wasn't no place then.	42:34
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm.	42:34
John Henry Moye	It was—he gave her—me that money, when she was in the hospital.	42:35
Karen Ferguson	Right. Oh, he gave her money when she was in the hospital?	42:38
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	42:39
Karen Ferguson	Okay. In James City here, did people raise gardens?	42:39
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	42:39
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? Did they have animals as well? Did they have any stock?	42:52
John Henry Moye	One or two people.	42:56
Karen Ferguson	Yeah?	42:57
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	42:57
Karen Ferguson	What kind of stuff did they have?	43:02
John Henry Moye	They had mules.	43:02
Karen Ferguson	Mule?	43:02
John Henry Moye	Mules and horses.	43:02
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. How about chickens and that kind of stuff?	43:02
John Henry Moye	Oh, yeah.	43:03
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? Mm-hmm. Did you have chickens?	43:04
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	43:04
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. Did you have to take care of them?	43:11
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	43:12
Karen Ferguson	Mm-hmm. What was your father's name?	43:18
John Henry Moye	John.	43:20
Karen Ferguson	Okay. John Henry Moye?	43:20
John Henry Moye	Senior.	43:20
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Do you know when he was born?	43:30
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	43:39
Karen Ferguson	When did he pass?	43:41
John Henry Moye	It was around '55.	43:41
Karen Ferguson	Maybe '55?	43:41
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	43:41
Karen Ferguson	Where was he born? Was he born in Leesville?	43:42
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	43:43
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. What was his occupation?	43:55
John Henry Moye	I don't know.	43:55
Karen Ferguson	You don't know? What was your sister's name?	43:55
John Henry Moye	Arlene.	43:56
Karen Ferguson	Sorry?	43:56
John Henry Moye	Arlenia.	43:56
Karen Ferguson	How do you spell that?	43:56
John Henry Moye	A-R-L-E-N-I-A.	43:56
Karen Ferguson	Okay. How much older was she than you?	43:56
John Henry Moye	About four.	43:56
Karen Ferguson	Four years? Is she still living?	43:56
John Henry Moye	I don't know.	43:56
Karen Ferguson	You don't know?	43:56
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	43:56
Karen Ferguson	Where did she go?	43:56
John Henry Moye	She would definitely remember. Now I'm remembering, to work out there. That's the last time I saw her.	43:56
Karen Ferguson	How old were you when you went into Raleigh? Do you remember?	45:03
John Henry Moye	Uh-uh.	45:04
Karen Ferguson	Were you in your 20s or?	45:04
John Henry Moye	I was 30.	45:04
Karen Ferguson	30s?	45:04
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	45:04
Karen Ferguson	Okay. How long did you stay there?	45:04
John Henry Moye	About two years.	45:05
Karen Ferguson	And then you came back to James City, and you've been here ever since?	45:34
John Henry Moye	I went to Virginia.	45:36
Karen Ferguson	Gone to Virginia?	45:40
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	45:40
Karen Ferguson	How long were you in Virginia?	45:43
John Henry Moye	About a year and a half.	45:43
Karen Ferguson	Okay. And you—I'm not sure if I understood you, did you—you went up there with your boss? Is that right?	45:44
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	45:55
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. Did you like it up there?	45:56
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	45:57
Karen Ferguson	Did you like it better than James City?	45:59
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	46:01
Karen Ferguson	Why?	46:02
John Henry Moye	The people out there weren't always getting in something.	46:02
Karen Ferguson	And then after that, you came back to James City?	46:02
John Henry Moye	No. I came back here [indistinct 00:46:34] and went in the Army.	46:32
Karen Ferguson	Okay. And then you came back here?	46:33
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	46:33
Karen Ferguson	Okay. Why did you come back here if you liked these other places better?	46:37

Karen Ferguson	But you weren't able to do that? Oh, here it is. What was the name of the school that you went to here in James City?	0:02
John Henry Moye	James City.	0:08
Karen Ferguson	Okay, and what grade did you finish there?	0:11
John Henry Moye	8th.	0:13
Karen Ferguson	8th? Okay. Now most of the people that you started school with, did they go to high school, or did they have to go to work after 8th grade?	0:26
John Henry Moye	Some of them did.	0:34
Karen Ferguson	Yeah, some of them had to go to work or—?	0:34
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.Went to work.	0:35
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. Do you think more people went to high school or they went to work?	0:37
John Henry Moye	More went to work.	0:40
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. Now in the fish house, when did you stop working there? Is that the job you kept on with until you retired, or—?	0:42
John Henry Moye	Well—I started working there. I worked at the fish house, and I went to that place you kill meat.	1:04
Karen Ferguson	Where you kill what?	1:31
John Henry Moye	Kill meat.	1:32
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay. Meat?	1:34
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	1:34
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. Okay.	1:34
John Henry Moye	A logger plant.	1:34
Karen Ferguson	A logging—	1:34
John Henry Moye	Logger plant.	1:34
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay. Okay. And when did you retire?	1:35
John Henry Moye	I retired in [indistinct 00:01:55].	1:47
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay.	1:47
John Henry Moye	I went to the [indistinct 00:02:19] and [indistinct 00:02:19].	2:18
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay.	2:18
John Henry Moye	[indistinct 00:02:19].	2:18
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay.	2:18
John Henry Moye	That was about [indistinct 00:02:19].	2:18
Karen Ferguson	So you went to Pilgrim Chapel Church?	2:19
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	2:22
Karen Ferguson	Do you go there still? And is that Missionary Baptist? Is that right?	2:22
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	2:28
Karen Ferguson	Have you always been a church-goer?	2:28
John Henry Moye	No.	2:40
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay. When did you stop going to church?	2:40
John Henry Moye	I was [indistinct 00:02:40]. I went about 50.	2:40
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay. You started going again when you were 50?	2:40
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	2:42
Karen Ferguson	Yeah.	2:42
John Henry Moye	Well, when I went [indistinct 00:02:47], I didn't know [indistinct 00:02:47].	2:42
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. Okay.	2:42
John Henry Moye	I went there and then the Army [indistinct 00:02:50]. I think I [indistinct 00:02:55], so I did.	2:42
Karen Ferguson	Right, right. So you've always belonged to Pilgrim Chapel?	2:42
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	2:42
Karen Ferguson	Why did you start going to church again after you had stopped?	2:42
John Henry Moye	Uh, first off, I didn't go much. I went every once in a while, but now that I'm well, I go every Sunday.	2:42
Karen Ferguson	Now why do you now when you didn't before?	2:42
John Henry Moye	I don't know.	2:42
Karen Ferguson	Yeah. Do you remember your baptism?	3:42
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	3:42
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? When was that? How old were you when you were baptized?	3:45
John Henry Moye	Well, I don't know.	3:46
Karen Ferguson	Uh-huh. Were you a man, were you older?	3:57
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	4:00
Karen Ferguson	Yeah, were you over 20?	4:00
John Henry Moye	Yeah, it was the '50s.	4:00
Karen Ferguson	Oh, in the '50s or you were 50?	4:00
John Henry Moye	Mm-hmm.	4:00
Karen Ferguson	1950s?	4:00
John Henry Moye	It was in the '50s.	4:00
Karen Ferguson	Oh, okay. Okay, sorry.	4:20
Karen Ferguson	Have you belonged to any organizations? No? Okay. Okay, I have something that I have to get you to sign. Are you able to sign your name?	4:20
John Henry Moye	Yeah.	4:48
Karen Ferguson	Yeah? Okay, I just was wondering if your hand was okay for that. This is an agreement that allows people to listen to your tape and use it. The tape is going to go back to Duke University, but another copy is coming back to the James City Historical Society, so people here can learn about your history, okay?	4:49
Karen Ferguson	I'm sorry, if you could just read this, or I can read it to you, and if you could just sign where I made that X there.	5:17

Item Info

Title:

John Moye interview recording, 1993 July 29

Date:

July 29, 1993

Creator:

Moye, John Henry

Contributor:

Ferguson, Karen

Description:

Name: John Henry Moye; Date of birth: 1913-03-04; Place of birth: Leesville, NC; Occupation(s): manufacturing; Residence: New Bern, NC
Informant ID: 268; Interviewed by: Karen Ferguson.

Occupation:

Manufacturing

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Format:

Language:

English

Digital Collection:

Behind the Veil

Source Collection:

Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South interviews, photographs, and project records, circa 1864-2011, bulk 1990-2004

Series:

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Provenance:

The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquired the Records of the Behind the Veil Oral History Project from the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies in 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2002.

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John Moye interview recording, 1993 July 29

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1. John Moye administrative file, 1993

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