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Miss Gen from Georgia
Special | 3m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Geneva "Gen" Idlette reflects on life in the South and Jimmy Carter confronting the KKK.
When Geneva "Gen" Idlette was young, she worked on Jimmy Carter’s family farm in Plains, Georgia. She's now 91 years old. Miss Gen reflects on growing up in the Deep South and witnessing Carter confronting the Klu Klux Klan before he was a political leader.
Mini Docs
Miss Gen from Georgia
Special | 3m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
When Geneva "Gen" Idlette was young, she worked on Jimmy Carter’s family farm in Plains, Georgia. She's now 91 years old. Miss Gen reflects on growing up in the Deep South and witnessing Carter confronting the Klu Klux Klan before he was a political leader.
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Hair was cranky and we'd take a fork And do our hair up - a fork.
And heat it up, pull the hair down straighten the hair with a fork.
Oh yeah, we met him.
I met him before He was calm.
Speak to you nice, that old country brogue They and Miss Lillian.
She was so nice, and but she was nice though.
She'd say y'all come on in.
That's how she talked - the southern.
And we'd go pick cotton.
Chop the cotton shake the peanuts and we pull corn.
And they were so friendly and they gave us a little bag of pean and a little slice of pecan pie.
And we went on our way.
One day we were going up there and we saw these these white horses with the sheets over their head and they were standing at the end of the woods with them horses and they So Carter went out and he waved his h and they disappeared.
But if he hadn't did that - he came and got us out of there.
We used to ride through in a wagon.
We had no cars.
We had a horse and a wagon.
We had to ri And when I got up here, he became the President.
I said oh, my God.
Jimmy Carter.
Little Jimmy Carter.
You know, we He was the President, but he wasn't that when we Andersonville, Georgia was the place where the the soldier prayed for water.
And water just shot up out the ground.
A spring came.
When I go home, I al And look.
And I don't know why people think I'm different, but I am different because I've seen a lot of stuff that go down and I'm been through a lot of stuff.
We didn't get a lot of education.
We had mother whit.
You learnt being nice to people.
Treat people nice and give if you had to give.
But you had to be nice to people.
You didn't slander nobod June 3rd, I'll be 91 years old.
I wonder now how people can walk by and not say good morning, you're ali You know.
