Black high school teaches Bible verses and devotionals
Children at the black high school near Barnardsville learned Bible verses and devotionals, and some of them still trigger memories for Ray.
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Oral History Interview with Geraldine Ray, September 13, 1997. Interview R-0128. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- KELLY ELAINE NAVIES:
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What are your favorite passages?
- GERALDINE RAY:
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I have several. I like the 100th Psalm, I like that quite a
bit. And there are some others, but uh see even when we were in
school down here that was one thing-see every Wednesday we had Bible
study.
- KELLY ELAINE NAVIES:
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In the school?
- GERALDINE RAY:
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In the school, then. See, even in high school we had
Devotions. We always had Devotions, not until the atheist come in
and stop that did that stop here. So, that was just a part of you,
that's something you'd go and do so then you I really knew the Bible
good then. Better than I do now, now I can't remember things, I
can't remember where I find the passages and things like I could
then. It's the matter I'm not trying, but I just can't contain it,
due to some sickness and some of the medication I have that has
affected my memory. So, that's another reason for that. I'm almost
through reading the Bible. We have been seeing how many can read
through the Bible and I'm almost through, but I can't retain it like
I used to. But, when I hear it, I know it. If that makes any sense
to you.