Albert Williams - On No Black People in Cary (clip)
Interviewed by Rob Stephens on October 8, 2009
Rob Stephens: --people?
Albert Williams: Yeah, we met them.
RS: Is that the family that said they moved out here because there weren't any Black people in Cary?
AW: Yeah.
Eloise Williams: It’s not a family, it’s just a lady.
AW: A lady. She had a grandson, her grandson came down.
EW: He was visiting, I think the lady lived by herself. She was so happy that day, she came over here and said oh my god, some Black people moved in. She sat down and we talked, it was very nice. She was very interesting. She came back, was it last week? Missing a dog, it ran over here.
AW: It ran over here. She was just calling him.
EW: She was like oh, these are the people who know you guys.
AW: The dog ran. Dog’s not hurting nothing. Yes sir.
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Oral history interview of Williams, Albert conducted by Stephens, Rob on October 8, 2009 at Chapel Hill, NC.
Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Albert Williams - On No Black People in Cary (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed December 21, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/albert-williams-on-no-black-people-in-cary.
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