And race. She was in the field of race and industry and so on, and she
was a very intelligent woman, and the people at Scarritt, the faculty
folk at Scarritt were, for the most part, very liberal and some of them
were radical, you know what I mean? And, I had them, especially
students, working with me in strikes and coal miners, and whenever I
wanted help, they gave sound advice.
We had what we called Aid Day, when we would take clothes and food to
theminers. People would send us clothing, etc. from all over the country
and we'd take it and distribute it. Alice kept a meticulous record of
everything she gave everybody. So the officers who sometimes thought
because they were union officers, they ought to have prior
consideration, but she (Alice) didn't think so. They were just another
family in need, you know? She saw to it that everybody got their share.
Whenever we wanted help, and we always needed help; it was quite a job
distributing all the materials: food, canned food, and clothes, shoes,
and we even got sets of false teeth, etc., students from Scarritt would
help us.