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20140020-22
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A transcript of an Ex-Slave Narrative interview conducted by Woody Phipps for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s with Fannie Wilson. Wilson was born into slavery on the plantation of a Mr. Ditto in Johnson Station, Texas around 1865. In her interview, she describes an encounter with the Ku Klux Klan when she was about ten years old. The Klansmen entered her home searching for her father, a Baptist preacher named Jack Ditto. Wilson's mother, Martha Ditto, attempted to escape, but a Klansman shot at her, killing her baby and hitting Martha in the chest with the bullet.
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
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AR316-4-5
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