Interview with Adam Daughtry 1973-08-09

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Content warning: derogatory language
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Adam Daughtry discusses the poor quality of his education when he was a child, which made him determined that his children would have better access. He describes his work in farming, wood, and hauling hands (transporting laborers), and discusses how other families sharecropped on the lands of Charlie Hall and Bates Moore. He recalls the day he and his brother stopped the school bus driver and demanded he bus their children to school, and speaks about how he almost bought land from Charlie Hall. He discusses his part in helping Calvin McGhee with the land claims case, and their visit to speak to the governor about establishing an Indian consolidated school. He shares his ongoing pessimism about the ongoing land money situation and about how children in the community are still not going to school. Finally, he discusses the creation of the consolidated school.