No. I thought about it a lot of times: we were out some mornings 'til two
o'clock in the morning. Come in. . . . Maybe we went to New Jersey, or
Brooklyn, or different places we had to go to make speeches. And
sometimes it'd be two o'clock in the morning before we'd get back to
where we were. . . . And this lady that lived in New Jersey, well, she'd
get off and leave us two girls on our own to where we were living, on
Lexington Avenue in more or less a women's hotel. We stayed there most
of the time. We had another place we stayed a while. But no, I wasn't
scared. But after I got back home and since I've grown older I thought,
really, how much danger we were in, you know. And we'd come out on the
streets at maybe eleven, twelve o'clock at night from
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course, you know, I was ignorant of. . . . I was brought up in the
country and the little place here where there wasn't too much of things
going on. And really I was in danger, but the Lord had mercy on me; he
knew I was ignorant and didn't know any better. But
[Laughter] there was so many things that now I think about
would scare me to death. We'd have to get on the bus, maybe, and walk
two or three blocks to get to. . . . And it would all depend on the time
that we'd get in or the bus that we were on or. . . . You know, we'd
have to walk. It was a dangerous thing!