{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/iiif/rb6vx06r10/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Suzanne Davis oral history, 2002 June 20"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/008/original/peabody-institute.logo.large.horizontal.blue.cropped.png?1549570058","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":[" Oral history interview of Suzanne Davis, daughter of musician Harrison Watts. Watts played violin, flute, and saxophone in ensembles led by A. Jack Thomas and Charles Harris, and he taught at Howard University. Davis studied music at Frederick Douglass High School with W. Llewellyn Wilson. In this interview, Davis recounts her memories of the musical life of Baltimore's Black community from approximately the 1930s to 1960s. (Abstract)"," Low audio levels on source media. Side 1 of tape 1 contains silence from 0:16 to 1:06. (Physical Description)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":[" 2002-06-20 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":[" Davis, Suzanne (Interviewee)"," Schaaf, Elizabeth M. (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":[" English (Primary)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["audio/mp3"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["The collection is open for use. Contact peabodyarchives@lists.jhu.edu for more information."]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://aspace.library.jhu.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/215345"]}}],"summary":{"en":[" Oral history interview of Suzanne Davis, daughter of musician Harrison Watts. Watts played violin, flute, and saxophone in ensembles led by A. Jack Thomas and Charles Harris, and he taught at Howard University. Davis studied music at Frederick Douglass High School with W. Llewellyn Wilson. In this interview, Davis recounts her memories of the musical life of Baltimore's Black community from approximately the 1930s to 1960s."," Low audio levels on source media. Side 1 of tape 1 contains silence from 0:16 to 1:06."]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["The collection is open for use. 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This is not. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: It doesn't have to be. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Because I was gonna say I'm not so sure I want the age. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: We will just skip that. You just tell us where you were born. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Okay. All right. I was born in Baltimore in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And where did your family live? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: We were northwest Baltimore residents. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And your mother and father. Your mother was from the Eastern Shore? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: No. My mother was from North Carolina, but she had been here for\nten years, and she came up from North Carolina at ten years of age when her\nmother passed. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=60.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And she lived then the next seventy-seven years because she was\neighty-seven, right here in Baltimore. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And your father? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: My father was born in south Baltimore. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: That's right, and he went to school in south Baltimore. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. He went to a Catholic school that was all they had for a\nhigh school at that time. He would be equivalent to a high school graduate. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: I see. Now, did he ever tell you about how he got involved\nwith music? How he started out? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: My mom did. My mom was the historian. Yes. My father always loved\nmusic. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=120.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He'd get into a tub, old washtub, metal washtub, and beat on it like a\ndrum. And he was sent out to the store one day, and the kids came along, they\nhad this parade. Wasn't anything for him to jump into this tub and start\nbeating, and his father come looking for him. He forgot he was on an errand,\nevidently, and he felt something tugging and tugging at the back of him, and he\nlet out a couple of expletives, and turned around and saw it was his father. And\nhe said it was him in that tub running trying to get away from his dad. Because\nin those days they really put a whipping on you if they caught you wrong. \n\n\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=180.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So his father and mother's family, were from Calvert County, and everybody down\nthere, we were the Boone family, and everybody there played something, if it\nwasn't nothing but a washboard. They loved music, and eventually some of them\ngot into bands and all. But this was all really before my time. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now your grandfather was a choir conductor? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: At the Ebenezer AME Church in south Baltimore. And my father's\nsister, his daughter, was the organist. He directed the choir and she was the\norganist at Ebenezer AME Church. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=240.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then later on he came up to the Adams\nChapel AME Church on Lexington Street, and he played instruments there for what\nthey called the Epworth League in those days. And he continued church work that way.  \n\n\n\nThen, in the meantime, I don't know exactly how he came in contact with it, but\nthe municipal--no, I guess say the city, at this point it's called the city--the\nCommonwealth Band was started. And this was like, I suspect, in the early 1900s.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=300.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it was the first and only what they called in those days the colored band.\nAnd they actually named it though the Commonwealth Band, and he played the\nFrench horn in this band. You have the picture of it. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: I do. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. And there he met a man they called Captain Harris, Charlie\nHarris. And Charlie Harris and another man by the name of A. Jack Thomas, they\nhad both been in World War I, so they had these titles. Because in the service\nthey were musicians. They had something to do with the band in the services. And\nso Captain Harris and A. Jack Thomas, if I'm not mistaken, I think he was a\nmajor, I'm not really sure. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=360.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But he came in contact with them, and they conducted\nthe various bands that he was in. \n\n\n\nSo A. Jack Thomas had a dance band. And I should have counted the number of\npeople. I haven't done that. In that band. Right. Seemingly fourteen. Fourteen. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Fourteen elegant-looking gentlemen. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. They were. Well, they also comprised another band, some of\nthem. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=420.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And their instruments sat in front of them, and there was two men who had\nthree instruments that they played that sat in front of them. And it seemingly\nthat one or two of them had two pieces, two instruments. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, it looks like your father was one of those men that had\nmore than one instrument. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Oh, yes. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Here is the saxophone, and the clarinet and the flute lying at\nhis feet. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Right. Right. Yes. Those were all the instruments that he played\nin this band. My dad had perfect pitch so that he picked up any instrument he\nwanted and played it. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=480.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now did he have formal music training with anyone? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: What he did at first was to play what they used to call by ear,\nwhich is perfect pitch. And when he took up formal training I don't know, but he\nplayed by music always. Once he did that, it was pride for him to play by music\nand not to play by ear. He went to Washington, D.C. to get training from Efrem\nZimbalist, Jr., the FBI man, his father, Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. was a very prominent-- \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Yes, he was. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. Musician. And he drove back and forth from Baltimore to\nWashington ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=540.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to learn to play the violin, the flute and the piccolo under this\nman. So he always read music after that. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: He was such a multi-talented person. He was involved with one\nof the principal orchestra committees that was connected with the City Colored\nSymphony Orchestra. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I'm sure. I do know that he was the first president of the\nColored Musicians Union here in Baltimore City. He was the first president. And,\noh, he was into so much. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Had two barbershops. I always wondered why they sold tickets\nfor the Colored Symphony Orchestra in two of the barbershops, and they turned\nout to be his barbershops. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=600.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Really. Now, you're telling me about it. I didn't know that. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: It was in the newspaper, and I thought, well, what an odd\nplace to sell concert tickets. But then when you told me that your father was a\nbarber and had two barbershops, then the light went on. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Right. And a poolroom. He was strictly businessman. And that was\nthe way he made his living. He didn't attempt to make his living off of music.\nThat was his love. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: But he played for everyone. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes, he did. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: He played in the Elks band. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. That was A. Jack Thomas was the conductor, that was the one\nhe conducted. And the Commonwealth Band, we called him Captain. Captain Harris\nwas the conductor of that. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: He was just anything that was making good music, it seemed\nlike you'd find your father sitting right in there. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=660.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. That's right. And he played classical music as well as jazz\nor any other form. Oh, yes, of course he played in the symphony that Llewellyn\nWilson, the Douglass High School teacher, conducted. And this was a\nhundred-piece choir that backed the orchestra up, symphony orchestra. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And Ellis Larkins's father was-- Mr. Larkins Sr. was--? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Oh, well, he was in one of the bands with my dad, but I never\ncould place his picture. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=720.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I guess he, Ellis, graduated from Douglass, must have\nbeen before I even entered Douglass High. But my father sent me to his music\nteacher when he found out how well Larkins was playing, and from his father of\ncourse. And I went to a woman named Watkins [unclear], Mrs. Watkins, and from\nthere I went to the vice principal--no, he was the principal of Douglass High\nSchool, Reckling. His wife was operatic, I think she was an operatic singer. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=780.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And\nneither one of these teachers though gave me the theory of music. And I really\nhad no interest in it although I was taught for eight years of piano, from age\nseven to age fifteen. And I didn't get any enjoyment out of it because I wasn't\ntaught to go from one key to another. But there was a teacher that my father\nknew about, I don't know why he didn't send me there, Adah Jenkins. And all of\nher people were very, very good pianists because they had other directions to go\nwith that piano. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: She was quite remarkable. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes, she was. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=840.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And she had some good students. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now I remember you telling me a story about falling in love\nwith the trumpet. You said you wanted to take the trumpet--? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: No, no, but instruments. Instruments. My father didn't realize\nit, but he was my role model. He played in these orchestras, and I wanted to\nplay instruments and be in the orchestras too, in the bands. And he said no. I\nneeded to do the piano first because it was the base. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: The foundation. And it was the instrument for young, properly\nbrought up young ladies. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Evidently. [Laughter] Evidently. But I lost interest in it when\nhe said I couldn't do it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=900.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I wanted to just blow these horns like I saw him\ndoing. But in that day and time of course they didn't accept or recognize that\nyou had to let the child do something that he or she was interested in, and then\nthat child would do what you wanted them to do. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: So the music world lost a great horn player. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I think so. I think they really lost a great musician period.\nBecause I loved music, and I would have been right in there. And I also think I\nwould have been a great teacher too, of young musicians. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now what was music like when you were growing up at home? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=960.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did\nyour father have friends and--? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: This A. Jack Thomas band used to rehearse there. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: At your house? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. At our house. Not on a regular basis, but they did. And we'd\ngo to the front door, and everywhere nothing but people, nothing but people.\nThey would come hear that music, and somebody would tell somebody else and the\nwhole block was full of people. In the comer of the street and everything. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now where were you living then? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: We were at Riggs Avenue, 1607, between Mount and Gilmore, but we\nwere right around the comer from the Coppin Normal School. Demonstration school.\nI was in the demonstration school. And those were good days. \n\n\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1020.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But now what I'm trying to also talk about is the fact that my father was in\nwhat they called the Municipal Band. And all of these bands by the way were paid\nby the city. They were under city jurisdiction. And every Sunday, July to\nAugust, you could find my mother and I sitting at a concert. Every Sunday, four\no'clock, we were there. My father played in that Municipal Band conducted by\nCaptain Harris. And that was, like I said, every Sunday. Every summer, from July\nthrough August. And my father, every Sunday night, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1080.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he would get out his violin\nand his flute, or piccolo, whatever, well, it was mostly the flute, that he\nwould accompany me in my lessons to see how well I had done that week with my\nlessons. So that was a concert every Sunday night. Yes. And he put the metronome\non the piano, and that would keep the time. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now where were the concerts on Sunday? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Oh, the city. They would use the elementary school, and wherever\nthey had steps, and they would come along and set up the bandstand. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1140.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They'd put\nthat up the day before, like on a Saturday, and Sunday it was there and came\nalong. And they did that all through the northwest section of Baltimore, and\nalso Druid Hill Park. There were concerts out there too. \n\n\n\nSo it was, it was really a lovely time. People had some place to go and\nsomething to do and look forward to. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And the families could do it together. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: They did. They did. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now, he also knew Mr. [Edward] Prettyman. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Prettyman came after Captain Harris went off the scene. Prettyman\nwas the conductor that took Captain Harris's place. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And he also conducted the Masonic Band. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Prettyman? \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Yeah. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: No doubt. You see my dad passed away at my age fourteen, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1200.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\nafter that my mother and I lost track of what was going on. My mother wasn't a\npusher. She was just satisfied to be a housewife. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Be at home. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: And she had me and that was it. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now were you allowed to go down to the theaters, like to the\nRegent Theater? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I went to the Royal, but how I got there was I had a childhood\nfriend, and her uncle took her to the Royal. And then he pulled me right into\nit, and we went there for the show. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Do you remember some of the shows that you saw there? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I'm afraid not. I was very, very young, and not paying too much\nattention I think to anything. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1260.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What it was, was that my mama was forty-one so\nshe was considered out of it, I guess. And my dad was off playing with the band,\nand then he belonged to every secret organization there was. Everyone, the\nOdd-Fellows, the Pythians, the Elks, the Masonics, and by the way he also-- \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Thirty-third degree? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: He went to Washington, drove back and forth. In those days you\ncouldn't get anything worthwhile until you went to Washington to get it. So he\nwent there and got the thirty-third degree which is the highest Masonic degree.\nShriners they're called. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now he must have known, and I wonder if you have ever\nencountered another man who played in the orchestra with your father whose name\nwas Ellsworth Toomey. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1320.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And Mr. Toomey used to run the May balls at the Lyric. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I heard about him as a child growing up, but I have no-- \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: He would be a much older generation. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: That's what I was going to say. I think he might have passed off\nthe scene before I could start paying attention to anything, yes. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Do you remember A. Jack Thomas, what he was like? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: No. No. I believe I was either not born or-- \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Terribly young. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. Yes. I know him well by seeing his pictures in my house all\nthe time, but I don't remember ever coming in contact with him. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1380.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now, with your grandfather being involved as a church\nmusician, and your father, was he active in the music program at the church? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Only as I said with the Epworth's League, and that was at Adams\nChapel. That was at another church on Lexington Street. It wasn't with the old Ebenezer. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Did he drag you into the choir when you were coming up? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: No, that's a long story too. But I wasn't born when he was at\nAdams Chapel. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: I see. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: And I came into junior choir through the church that was across\nthe street from us, Mt. Zion Methodist Church. Mt. Zion United Methodist Church.\nI was in the choir there. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Who was leading the choir then? Do you remember? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1440.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At Mt. Zion? \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Yeah. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: There was Prettyman's uncle. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Oh my goodness. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: They were a musical family too. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Do you remember the name of--? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: That Prettyman? \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Yeah. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: No. No. His children, of course, if any of them are living would\nknow. But it might have been Charles Prettyman, but I'm not certain. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, because Mr. Prettyman's brother, his youngest brother\nstill lives in my neighborhood. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Oh good. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: So I'll have to ask him. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. I'd like to talk with him sometime. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Oh, he's in the phone book. You can give him a call. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Is he Edward? Okay. I'll look him up. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And he would have played with your father too. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: He did know him. Yes, he did know my dad. I remember meeting him\nback at that time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1500.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He first played, but I think later on, he might have even\nconducted the band. I'm not sure. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: I don't know. But I know that he was active with the Masonic\nBand and the Park Band, and probably with, oh, and the orchestra too. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Uh-huh, uh-huh. That was part of after my father passed on. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Yes. Well, he, that family, I've never seen so many handsome\nmen in a single family. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. Yes. Their father was a nice-looking man. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Oh. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes he was. The Prettyman that you know, his, he only had one\nsister. She was in my grade in school, Sara, Sara Prettyman. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Oh yes. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: And Sara was the soloist. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1560.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She sang. She took up music at Morgan.\nBut she passed off the scene when we were very young. She had married, I\nbelieve. But she died a young woman. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now with all of the fraternal organizations that your father\nbelonged to and in many cases played with the musical organizations. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Oh, yes. That's true. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: I know a lot of them used to hold dances and have social\nevents. But so many times the musicians never get to them because they're always\nbusy playing either someplace else or at them. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. Yes. I don't know too much about that. I don't know. I don't\nknow too much about that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1620.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That either happened before I became of age or it was\nlost to me because I never went to dance halls really. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now when you were, the music program at Douglass has always\nbeen so amazingly strong. And was Miss Reckling there when you were singing? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: No. No. No. She never was there. No. No. Her husband was the\nvice-- I keep saying vice principal. I don't know whether he was vice--Ralph\nReckling--or whether he was principal. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, was Mr. Wilson still there when you were a student? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: When they were there. Yeah. When Reckling was there, he was\nthere. Yeah. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Did you have any contact with him as a student at Douglass? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: All the grades had music in senior high school. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1680.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396/transcript/38413/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They didn't play\nwith our music like they do now. We had gym classes, and we had art classes,\nseparate, and music classes. Yes. And Mr. Wilson was our teacher. He taught\neverybody who came through Douglass. Everybody had to go through that one music\nclass, yes. It was different periods in the day, but everybody was in on that. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Maybe that accounts for why there were so many good musicians\ncoming out from Douglass. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I'm sure because I imagine he picked them up, Mr. Wilson did. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Did you enjoy those classes with Mr. Wilson? \n\n\n\n[END PART 1] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117396#t=1740.0,1800.0"}]}]},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 3 - pims0091_DavisS-1_02.mp3"]},"duration":1798.03429,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-peabody.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/117/397/original/pims0091_DavisS-1_02.mp3?1624270799","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":1798.03429,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["DavisS_102_OHMS_20220607 [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now, you were telling me about your father as a composer. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. Although, I was so young. I didn't know too much about what\nwas going on. But anyhow, when my father passed, young Edward Prettyman and the\ndad had a memorial concert, and my mother and I were invited to hear his music\nat that time. But actually, we didn't have the music either. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: What a shame. What a loss. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. That's the reason why I said I'd like to get in touch with\nhim and talk with him. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Right. He's a lovely man. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Hm? \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: He's a lovely man, very nice. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=0.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I bet. All of those children were. There were a lot of them, but\nthere was only one girl, Sara. Sara and I used to even share a seat together in\nthe classroom. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: So if you weren't, when you went to the theater, you went with friends? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And what about entertainment at home? What kind of\nentertainment did your family enjoy doing, or they led a quiet life? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: No. We didn't have that. Cause my dad wasn't there. He was either\nwith his secret organizations or he was practicing, and that took up his life.\nAnd my mom, well, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=60.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she didn't have the education having left school at ten years\nof age. But she always told me that when the city had night school that she was\nin one of those first classes for night schoo1. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Oh my goodness. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yeah. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Oh wonderful. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: She went on, and I don't know what she learned there because I\nwas young. And she took up sewing and she took up hairdressing. So those were\nher outlets. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Ambitious family. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes, that's why I've always pushed and tried so hard because all\nof that came into my head about what they had done, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=120.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I saw the certificates.\nThe certificates were on the wall. And so I knew I was supposed to be in school.\nI just knew that much. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, what was life in your neighborhood like when you were\ngrowing up? I mean, you talked about the orchestra, or the A. Jack Thomas Band\nrehearsing at the house. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Well, that was the days of Joe Louis and the fights. And the\nstreets were packed and the radios were on to the top of the volume. And people\nwere listening to that fight. Because the ones I remember were in the\nsummertime, and people were all over the steps, you know, and listening.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=180.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Something else too. Oh yes, of course, you had Ella Fitzgerald and \"A Tisket, a\nTasket.\" They mostly entertained themselves dancing in the street, when they\nweren't in dance halls. And you also had your neighborhood quartets going around\nand sing on corners. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Oh, wonderful. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: They weren't moving, minstrels or nothing like that, but whatever\nneighborhood you found yourself in, you might find a little group on the corner\nsinging. That's the way they entertained themselves. And all the latest dances,\nlike I say, they'd come out in the street and do it. \n\n\n\nAnd my father had only one niece. His family was very small. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=240.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And she would come\naround and teach me all the latest dances. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Oh great. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yeah, she kept me up. She was the one, had it not been for her, I\nwould not have ever danced. But she taught all the latest dances, and then she\ntaught me how to do the two step and the waltz and the one step. I still know\nhow to do those. [Laughter] \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, it sounds like a very close-knit community. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: We were. We were at that time. We were. Neighbors were friendly\nwith neighbors. And if you had a funeral, somebody would come around with a hat,\nand we' d get money together to take to that family. We also would cook ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=300.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\ncarry into the family food so that they didn't have to cook. They cooked for\ndays and days and had food for those people. \n\n\n\nNow this wasn't after, but it was just before leading up to the funeral, and the\nday of the funeral. And that night everybody would go to that house, and you\nwere given a plate of food. And you sat down and you talked about those lives\nand any other thing that was going on. \n\n\n\nAnd the main thing I wanted to say, I know you've heard this over and over, but\nwhen it got hot, you could open your front door, put a pallet in the hall, in\nthe living room, anywhere, and nobody ever came to bother you. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=360.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nobody. That's\nthe way we cooled off. You could open up that front door and put that pallet\ndown and lay right there, and the breeze would just blow through the house and\nkitchen door and all the windows would be open. And that was our air\nconditioning. We didn't suffer at all from the heat at night. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, we're still lucky to have some of the neighborhood markets. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: The neighborhood what? \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: The neighborhood markets. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Oh absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, you had this Lafayette Market which\nwas really close to my house. We could walk to Lafayette Market, which is still\nthere of course. And it was northwest Baltimore, Lawrence Street and\nPennsylvania Avenue, which wasn't too far from the Royal. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=420.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And you'd walk there\nand you' d walk back. \n\n\n\nAnd we also walked to school and walked back. The buses were there, but we\ndidn't have a ride in the buses. We walked. And we were put in the neighborhoods\nwhere the schools were that you could walk to. \n\n\n\nAnnapolis had its high school. I think it was called Bates, but I' m not sure.\nThey had their high school. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, I remember when I was talking to Mr. Blake. He was\ntalking about growing up in Baltimore. Eubie Blake. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Okay. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And he said that the close-knit neighborhood was really nice,\nbut if you were a kid, it made it really hard to get away with anything. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=480.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh no. You didn't. [Laughter] No, indeed. Everybody there,\nwhether he was a parent or not, watched you carefully. If you were in the wrong\nplace or doing the wrong thing, they would remind you of it. They would remind\nyou. And, of course, I didn't like to be punished so they never caught me at\nanything. I guess I was a goody two-shoes. \n\n\n\nBut I also was a physical person. They had ping-pong table, basketball, and I\nwas always trying to get into basketball games with the boys. I was rough and\ntumble. I was rough and tumble. \n\nWhile the other little girls sat on the steps and played jacks, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=540.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was more\ninterested in playing stickball or sandlot baseball. We had a lot at the back of\nus, and we'd play ball. I wanted to play ball. I didn't want to play jacks.\n[Laughter] I was not ladylike. \n\n\n\nBut I think that had to do with the fact that I was an only child. And the girls\nwould be in the house cleaning maybe, but my mother would let me go to the\nschool yard where the ping-pong tables and things were. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: So there was lots to do. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Oh yeah. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Such a vibrant community. So many things. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes it was. People did it among themselves and made entertainment\nfor themselves. Like I said, can't think what we used to call it. Playground,\nthat's what we called it, the playground. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=600.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, we had playgrounds with the\ndifferent elementary schools, and we had regular college certified teachers who\nran those programs. And they would teach us the rules and all and how the games\nwere played. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: So everything was supervised. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I was about to say that. We had supervised, and really the\ngovernment made it bad when they took all that away. Had it been kept like that,\nthey evidently didn't want to pay the college people to supervise at the\nplayground. And just as it is now, they don't want to be engaged in that. But\nthere would be a lot less people in trouble if they had something to do with\nthose idle hands. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=660.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I was taken aback when I realized how many opportunities\nthere were for young people who loved music and wanted to play music in the community. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. Yes. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And the Afro-American had a Drum and Bugle Corps and a lot of\nthe fraternal organizations made the opportunities for young people to play. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yeah. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And there was all the music training, which still goes on in\nany of the churches where you have a strong ministry of music \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Churches now. Yeah. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: There were so many riches in the community. It was very interesting. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: It was. It was. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=720.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was just a pity that we decided to modernize\nourselves and take on new things rather than sticking with those old things, and\nmaybe improving on them, but not doing away with them. You know. But music was a\nbig thing in the African American neighborhoods stemming from the churches. \n\n\n\nThey would start with the church music, but then they would come out and do the\nworldly things too. [Laughter] And we were always just been a musical race of\npeople, I think. Brought over from Africa, and they have brought the drums back\ninto our music. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=780.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I guess before the '50s they maybe had started. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, even, I remember, I've always loved going to Druid Hill\nPark, and Sunday afternoon was just wonderful. I don't remember hearing them now\nfor awhile, but there was a group of young African American men who used to drum\non Sunday afternoons. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Is that right? \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And it was wonderful. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I never did that, attended those. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now I'm curious about the quartets of the little musical\norganizations that the singers in the neighborhoods-- Did you know any of the\nfo1ks? Or just enjoyed listening to them? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: No. Well, I can't say we enjoyed listening to them. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=840.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think we\nthought they were howling. [Laughter] Except for the families and the friends of\nthose. They thought it was great. Of course, we had Sonny Til. He was in our\nneighborhood. I would say within walking distance, but he was some blocks away\nfrom where I lived. \n\n\n\nIn fact, Sonny Til was years older than I. he was probably a grown man when I\nwas a little kid. So I was, I really wasn't allowed over there where he was. He\nwas on Stricker off Calhoun Street. \n\n\n\nThen we had--I think his name was Phil Harris. A local band that played at-- No,\nI'm getting the names mixed up with the bar name. His name was Harris, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=900.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but\nPhil's Bar at Mount and Mosher had a band that they kept there all the time. He\nwas very popular. Yeah. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And that was a very nice place. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: It was. It was. Yeah. I'm trying to say, but I can't think of the\nwords. The high brows went there. Went to Phil's. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Yeah I've heard. I've just been listening to an interview, and\nthe gentleman said when he decided he was going to marry his wife, he took her\nthere. That' s where he took her. \n\n\n\nDavis : Yes. Yes. That was. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: It was very, very classy. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. It was run right. And they didn't allow anything and\neverything in there. And like I said, they had this band that played all the\ntime there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=960.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Have you not heard of that band that was there at Phil's? \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: No. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: That's too bad because that's definitely a part of the history of\nthat neighborhood. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Do you remember who led that? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I think his last name was Harris. I could find out though I think\nfrom people who are older than I. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, there were two Mr. Charles Harrises. I mean there was\nCaptain Harris and Mr. Charles Harris, who ultimately became part of the Nat\nKing Cole Trio. He played bass. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I don't know about that, but it could be the same Harris that I'm\nspeaking of. Yeah. I don't know about him playing outside of his own band, but\nhe led this band and it was always there, every night. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: I will have to find out about that. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yeah. I think it was every night. Of course I wasn't old enough\nto go to a bar, nor did I go to them when I was old enough so. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=1020.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I do know we\nall thought he had a lot of respect, and he was a classy kind of a person too.\nBut that was a classy place. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: You've seen a lot of change in Baltimore over the years. What\ndo you think precipitated some of those changes and when do you think they started? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Now, I have to cut out a few years because for about twelve years\nI really wasn't into city life at all. I moved away, and I worked for the state\nin two or three jobs. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=1080.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The whole '70s would be wiped out for me. \n\n\n\nBut the changes really came when they decided to take on integration. That's\nwhen we abandoned all of our tradition. We just abandoned everything. And that\nwas the change, and I would say when they had that '50s vote, and the schools\nwere integrated. We lost our heritage, what we had built up since we had been\nhere in the United States. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=1200.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In my opinion, it\ndidn't come from the Blacks. Maybe some people might disagree with me on that.\nBut I think the educated and professional people might have gone along with it,\nand it went on. But it wasn't from the people. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: I remember reading about Blanche Calloway, who had so much\ntrouble when she was on tour. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. Like going into restaurants and bathrooms. Yeah. King Cole's\nwife, too, had trouble. He could go in, but she couldn't come in. That happened.\nIt really happened. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=1260.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Even here, the idea that you couldn't just walk downtown and\ngo in and buy a hat in Hutzler's. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Oh, no, no, no. You didn't try on hats. Plus the fact they had\nthis circus on the east side. Right now, I can't recall exactly where, but we\ncouldn't go to the circus. We didn't know anything about the circus. They had\nsome kind of a nation's day, but it just goes by another name in the park that\nis over by Glen Falls, Glen Falls Park. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Glen Oak? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: No, Glen Oak is the avenue. But Glen something park. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: There's Lincoln Park over there. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes, but I'm not speaking of that. Lincoln is around Edmondson\nAvenue. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=1320.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And the one I'm talking about, it was around Glen Falls Avenue. Yeah.\nGlen Oak Avenue is what I'm trying to say. It was Glen Oak. \n\n\n\nIt seemed like to us that we should be in on it too because it was for all\nnations, and we weren't allowed to come. Yeah. That and the circus, I remember\nwe all wanted to go to, but we couldn't go to it. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: I mean, certainly, that's well and for all good over. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. It is. Well, when I said we couldn't go to it, we would have\nhad the nerve to go there, but we were run out. Like with sticks and stones and\nfights and all. We were not allowed to stay there. So we soon found out you were\nwelcome, you didn't go. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=1380.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So there were many, many things. Some good and some not\nso good. Yeah. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well you came back to city life-- \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. Yes. After a while, I worked, I think I told you already\nthough. I told you. I just did two or three jobs. But one job I was a supervisor\nwith social services up in Elkton, Maryland. And I kept my home up here and\ndrove back and forth on the weekend. Another one was the assessments and\ntaxation. I again lived during the week at whatever place. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=1440.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So I've worked in\nHarford County, Cecil County, Calvert County, Prince George's County, [Anne]\nArundel County. I've worked in all of those different places. I was a mover,\nlike my dad. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Right. Right. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Only he moved around in the city, and I moved around the state. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: You mentioned the union, briefly. Your father was one of the\nfirst, or the first president of the union. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Of the Colored Musicians Union. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Now, he must have been involved in some of the problems that\nthe unions had with-- \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Absolutely. My father was like an activist. If it wasn't right,\nhe was going to step in there and be a member and try to make it right. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=1500.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But he\nwasn't a leader activist. He only led where he was as an activist. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: But I know that the union--well, both of the unions--someone\npointed out to me, an older woman who was with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra,\nshe said Fred Huber was unfair to all the musicians, Black, White, male, female,\nit didn't matter. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: He just had a problem. You might say he had a problem. Yes, he\ndid. I don't remember exactly, but I know he had a bad name in our house. Yeah.\nBetween my mother and dad I would hear something was wrong, but I never knew\nexactly what it was. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: He didn't want to pay them what they were worth. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: And I'm sure that rankled my father. 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And Mr. Wilson\nbeing a teacher, he-- \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, he fought the union. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Mr. Wilson? \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Yes, he did. There was a very interesting article in, that he\nwrote in the Afro­-American, and he was saying that the union was being unfair\nin trying to prevent the City Colored Orchestra because, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=1620.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"evidently, your father\nand the members of the union were trying \n\nto get their wages for the orchestra members. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes. I'm sure of that. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And the Afro-American editors, who were Mr. Wilson's bosses,\nsupported the union. So it was very interesting. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yeah. It was touch and go for a long time, I guess. But I, of\ncourse, I guess being young, I didn't know anything about it, and didn't hear\nany talk of it. Among my mother and her friends. My father was evidently talking\nabout it with those people who were interested in it. And she would know about it. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, he must have been in the thick of it. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: What. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: He must have been in the thick of it. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397#t=1680.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117397/transcript/38414/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My dad? \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Yeah. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I'm sure of it. I'm sure of it. I can't say that I heard anything\nabout what was going on. I was either too young, or it happened before I came\nalong. Because my dad was fifty-three when I was born, so he didn't last too\nlong. He was sixty-seven when he passed. I had lost my fact--my hair's braided. \n\n\n\nWell, I'll fill this space in. My father was also a barbershop inspector for the city. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: That's right. 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It might be 1313,\nbut I remember that old house well. Yeah. Had real high marble steps, and you'd\nget into the vestibule, and you went up some more steps. And then the living\nroom was off to the right, and I think we even had one or two steps to step up\ninto the dining room, dining room and the kitchen. So it really was I suspect a\nplace where they could handle people in the kind of social groups. You know what\nI mean? Some would be waiting in the living room, then you'd move maybe up to\nthe dining room to eat. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398#t=0.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398/transcript/38415/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And my mother used to help her. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Oh for heaven's sake. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yeah. And her son, Mr. Joe Boston, went to Howard University and\nbecame one of the custom house agents. He was in the custom house professionally\nworking. Yeah. So, he must have been a first there, too. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, there was for a time a hotel called Smith's Hotel. But\nit sounds like there weren't very many places where visiting musicians could stay. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Oh, no. No. There wasn't. I think they mostly might have stayed\nin private homes. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And Mr. Tracy McCleary, who was the last band leader at the\nRoyal, was telling me that one of the clubs that he played in had quarters over\nthe club where their musicians could just stay. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398#t=60.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398/transcript/38415/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But that must have been very difficult. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: It was. It was. In most towns that they went in, they did stay in\nprivate homes. Yes, they had to. They had to stay in private homes. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, it must have been at least a little less lonely than\nbeing alone in a hotel. [Laughter] \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. No, I would think, like two or three\nwould go to one house, and two or three would go to another house and all in the\nsame neighborhood. I'm sure that's the way it worked. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, your father was fortunate in that he made his municipal\ncareer here. Was never faced with the problems of traveling as an\nAfrican-American musician. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Not at all. Not at all. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398#t=120.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398/transcript/38415/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, and I do want to mention this too.\nWhen the summer concerts were over, he would put my mother and I in the car, and\nwe went to Hagerstown and saw all the-- like here. Like you go to the museum and\nwhatever. We went to all of those places. \n\n\n\nAnd then he would take us to the Eastern Shore, and we'd go to those places. It\nwould be on a Sunday afternoon, and or Sunday all day, however long it took. We\nwent to Gettysburg, we went to all places that had--and I was very smart I think\nas a matter of fact of going to those places. \n\nIn school I skipped the first grade and the sixth grade in elementary school.\nAnd I think it was because I had a vocabulary, I knew what I had seen. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398#t=180.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398/transcript/38415/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I was\nvery mouthy and I'd come back and talk about it. [Laughter] \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Where did you like to go on the Eastern Shore? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I can't say I recall exactly, but I know we went. No, that was\nAtlantic City that we went to where we got that awful taffy. I never liked that taffy. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Nobody ever likes that taffy. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Really? Well, good. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: I don't know what they do. [Laughter] \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: I thought it was me. Yeah. So we would go to Atlantic City,\nGettysburg, all kinds of places. He never let us sit in the house. When he was\nfree, he'd pick us up and carry us somewhere. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398#t=240.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398/transcript/38415/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was a good man. Yes, he really\nwas a good man and a good provider. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, your mother sounds like she must have been quite a gal. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Well, she was. I think she was like his showpiece. He liked to\ncarry her around. [Laughter] \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, she sounded like a pretty capable showpiece. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Well, like I said, she would read anything. In fact, if she would\nwalk in here now, you wouldn't be able to tell that she wasn't a high school\ngraduate. And some people thought she was a professional person because she had\nthat carriage about her, and her role models, of course, was Caucasians. \n\n\n\nShe was sent up here to be a nursemaid to one of the children. And she said she\nused to ride with this young girl. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398#t=300.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398/transcript/38415/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Right around St. Anne's. She even remembered\nthe place. She said there was nothing but fields up there around Greenmount\nAvenue. And she said they used to ride horseback. \n\n\n\nSo she had no southern accent because she wasn't raised in the south, and she\nwasn't raised around southern Blacks who talked that way. And her English was\nvery good. I think it was that she liked words and liked to read. And she told\nme also that she recited on the stage when she was in school. Yeah. And that\npicture that you see, that is basketball uniform that she has on. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398#t=360.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398/transcript/38415/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, my goodness. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: She was on the basketball team. So she was, you know, whatever. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: So when something needed to be get fixed in the house, your\nfather had to take care of his hands and-- \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: That's right. And Louise would take care of it. And she almost\nwrote her name in his shirts. They were starched. She shined his shoes, also. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: He certainly always looked like he stepped out of a bandbox. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yes, he did. And that was his choice. That's the way he liked to\nbe. And we loved to go shopping with him because he would buy the most expensive\nthing on the rack. Not because it was expensive, but he would look at the\nquality of it. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: It would last. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Yeah. And that's what he would get. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Like my grandmother said, buy it once. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Right. I say that now, and you don't have to do it two or three\ntimes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398#t=420.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398/transcript/38415/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's right. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Well, it sounds like you had a wonderful childhood. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Well, I think I did. Except for the kids teasing me on the\noutside. Because what they said was I talked proper. I didn't talk proper. I\ntalked like my mother, and my mother had talked like she heard other people\ntalking. Because she was nothing but a kid, and she would just mimic what she\nsaw and what she heard. \n\n\n\nAnd then going to the evening schools when they first opened up in Baltimore\nCity. And that helped to finish her. She also did, because of my father being in\nthe Masonics, being the wife of a Masonic, you can get easier. In fact, that's\nthe only way they take you in. You've got to be the mother, the husband, the\nsister. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398#t=480.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398/transcript/38415/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's four or five ways that they could get in. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Was this at the Eastern Star [lodge]? \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: That's what she was. Yeah. She became an Eastern Star. Yeah. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: I see. Oh, that's very interesting. Well, what a life. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: It was. I was telling another girl about it because most people\neither don't understand me or they don't want to understand me. I'll put it that\nway. And she's a church member, and she said I can't say now the exact words\nthat she used. But she said something similar to what you're saying, she said\nthat you've had a good life. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: And still having it. \n\n\n\nSUZANNE DAVIS: Well, I try. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398#t=540.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398/transcript/38415/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I do try. \n\n\n\n[END OF INTERVIEW] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44121/file/117398#t=600.0,660.0"}]}]}]}