Oral History

Collene Riggsbee Rogers - Day or night (clip)

Interviewed by Kathryn Wall on March 11, 2023

Collene Riggsbee Rogers: If they called him and they needed it, he’d go. At his funeral, Reverend Manley said, “How many people had to call him at one o’clock in the morning--two o’clock in the morning--and he came?” And I think every hand in the church went up. And see we lived that way, and I think that was what the boys got tired of because, you know, they were in school too! You know, they would have to get up and go and make sure that his people had water.

Collene Riggsbee Rogers - Day or night (clip)

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Oral history interview of Rogers, Collene conducted by Wall, Kathryn on March 11, 2023 at Marian Cheek Jackson Center, Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Collene Riggsbee Rogers - Day or night (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed December 22, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/collene-riggsbee-rogers-day-or-night.

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