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    Lutie Jennings Briscoe

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    Photograph shows Lutie Jennings Briscoe in a full-length studio portrait. Her elaborate dark dress has a bustle and she wears a hat with feathers.Photographer's imprint on back of original print: "J. J. Mullins / Photo-artist / Waco, Texas" Inscription: "Aunt Lutie / S. S. Jennings / Married Notley James Briscoe / in Waco, Texas / Feb. 19, 1882 / Had:/ Portia Briscoe born 21 Dec. 1883 died 25 July 1884. Frank Briscoe born 14 Jan 1885 died 9 Jun 1885 / S S Jennings Briscoe died 26 March 1886 / Buried in Pearsall, Texas.

    Interview with Manuel Briscoe

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    Manuel Briscoe is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 25, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Briscoe talks about sharecropping quite a bit in the beginning, church customs changing, excitement for Christmas as a child, black leadership, his elementary school being named after a slave, respecting everyone, local legislation, and more
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