you give me scme of your personal family history Mr. Eddings.
St. Pauls, North Carolina and. this is home .
;B How many members in your family. how many brothers and sisters?
E: Eight brothers and two sisters.
B: And you are the oldest?
B: And were you born in this county.-.. you always lived here?
of your primary sal-however far you were educated?
er ~ County, about two years in South Carolina the early part.
B: 'fB---Pr Wr. h at part of South Carolina?
B: Are you a Lumbee Indian?
in South Carolina or in bewi- County?
it if there was any .un, Maybe towards the last there was .
no, I can't say I ever did.
a specific vocation or what happened after High school?
E: Two years in the Army.
in service especially on the local level?
being closely affiliated with any of yurs local churches?
E: No, I was married in South Carolina.
the chapel :;own there and why.
marry a mixed races and if I would swear ;f I was Indian .
white than I do Indian aaw I guess.
and and u., being treated as a man 11%; S<* proven different.
,And that has caused some ( ct- ).
and then again J*namw caused me to quit quite a few quicker than ordinary.
UM, I can go down to Lumberton and any of the um, jobs that were .
I would be treated a little different.
mme other reason other than my race to treat me different,.
B: Can you sight any specific experiences you've had?
on as a mechanic and asked if I would take head mechanic job.
things-like that, T would kindly butn sometimes.
B: What about your experience in the military as a "t equalE "Indian?"
B: What abbut movies in sosa. County in your particular situation?
we could attend the movies but we were required certain areas.
lot of times I would go downstairs just to prove that I could.
I. .. I. .. I. .the pnly difference I see now, thiit was .
because they want to do it. they re just putting up with you.
the Indian children in KoM oon County?
to the hiite schools, but um, I really .
B: You say our better teachers Indian teachers?
superiority, they're being placed in 1/hite schools.
y-an> p L7-. )- by pb.g*well, yes, it all rg ee back to the same thing.
be um Uncle Tom just to be a just to keep their job.
from me in the near future. i. .