The first Saturday night after Savage moved to Eudora (1954) she was surprised to hear a siren go off at 9 pm. Friends told her that was to let the African American cotton workers know they had to be back on the side of the tracks where they lived until Monday morning unless they could prove they were domestics. [00:06:02]
#1: Patricia "Pat" (Savage), grade school picture, ca. 1950
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#2: Maternal side of Pat Savage's family: Ethel Clements and Pearl and Effie Jane Crownover, Arkansas, ca. 1900-1905
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#3: Pat Savage's parents, Vernon and Virginia Harris Ford, on their wedding day, May 30, 1941
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#4: The Savage family at a Harris family reunion: Vernon Ford and Virginia Harris Ford with their children (l-r) Bob, Pat, and Don, 1949
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#5: Pat Ford (Savage) and her brothers, Bob and Don, on Bob's birthday; Eudora, Arkansas, July 4, 1953
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#6: Pat Savage's father, Vernon Ford, at the doorway to home on McGehee school campus; homes were converted barracks from the Rohwer Japanese internment camp; McGehee, Arkansas, ca. 1954
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#7: Pat Savage on the day of her interview; Gravette, Arkansas, January 16, 2019
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