(2) To see were you conscious of any of the educational principals current about the time of the development of Bethune-Cookman.
(3) Your association with Lucy Laney and also with Booker T. Washington.
(4) Some of the New Deal personal stuff. Of course I know how Roosevelt turned with great feeling of ease and how you knew him well enough to shake your finger in his face and give him some friendly advice; and about your acquaintance with Mrs. James Roosevelt, and your contact with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Your associations with that group has certain ramifications.
(5) A picture of Mr. Bethune.
Bethune: I think the educational situation of Florida and possibly of the lower East coast is very vague. I went there because I was looking for a hard place to work.
Johnson: How did you know Florida was hard?
Bethune: I knew of Florida….was building …down there and Negroes were flocking there and I went by to see what was being done.
Johnson: Did you know anyone there?
Bethune: No, when I went to Florida first….my first married year was in Savannah, Georgia. That was when I was quiet from active work. That year I took off.
My boy was born that year and I was engaged in civic things, church clubs, community work with women and children. On Robert’s Street where I lived I had a group working with and for them, and while I was there my friend Irene Smallwood, who later became Mrs. J.W.E. Bowen, was with me when I taught at Lucy Laney’s school.
While visiting me in Savannah, a man named Reverend James C. U_gims(?) came to Savannah to visit Irene Smallwood. I met him—he was the pastor of the Presbyterian church in Palatka, Florida.
