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Hi, this is William Ramsey.

Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on tonight show of a very special guest.

Her name is Hattie Thomas Whitehead, and she's publishing a book next month.

The title of the book is giving voice to Lindentown.

It's about her story in Georgia, and it rings true to other stories, something I've heard here in Southern California,

the story of Charles and Willa Bruce and Manhattan Beach.

But I see a lot of similarities between something

I followed about an intimate domain that was,

I think unjustly imposed, but she can talk more about that.

So Hattie Thomas Whitehead, are you there? Hello everybody. My name is Hattie Thomas Whitehead. I was born in a small town in

Georgia, Athens, Georgia, and I was born in a community called Lennon Town. I was born in 1948. So I was born in 1948, and I had three

sisters and three brothers. That was seven of us, and a mother and father. In the community that I was

born in, it was a community of relatives and family. It had three streets, two was unpaved, and one was paved.

And it was a black community. It was low income. We had low income. But however, this community was made up of hardworking

men and women who made $10 to $8 a week salary. But off of that $10 to $8 a week salary,

the community reached 60% home ownership.

We were, as children, we were accountable

to all adults in the community.

It was no such thing as talking back.

We were accountable for the whole community,

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