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Albert Washington - On games at Hargraves Community Center (clip)

Interviewed by Maggie West on September 27, 2018

Albert Washington - On games at Hargraves Community Center (clip)

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Oral history interview of Washington, Albert conducted by West, Maggie on September 27, 2018.

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Albert Washington - On games at Hargraves Community Center (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed April 19, 2025, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/albert-washington-on-games-at-hargraves-community-center.

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Albert Washington

"[My son] went in the Navy first, and when he came out of the Navy, he went to work for us. And I would put him on the hardest thing on the job, and that’s why he’s such a brick mason, such a good mason. Every corner or curve that I had, I would put him on." - Albert Washington

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