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Nettie Holliday Thompson was interviewed in South Carolina on July 20, 1994. Nettie was born in Brunswick, Georgia January 24, 1912. Nettie states in her interview, “We didn’t have too much of a problem during segregation because we was so tied up and mixed up.” (Thompson, 1994) Jim Crow laws nearly changed the way colored people lived their life on a daily, by segregating schools, restrooms, transportation, parks, restaurants, and much more. (Rocky Mountain PBS, 1996-2010) Thompson remembers living in a mixed community, her neighbor's next door were white. For as long as she could remember everyone got along and were cordial to each other. They went to separate schools one for white and one for people of color also they had separate drugstores
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