Encouragement from Conner

ID: 1848 ~ Source: Marrs, Jimmie, interviewed by Tanya Rieke Hartley, February 20, 1993, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Jimmie Marrs explains that Jeffie Conner was always an encouraging person,

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By Stephanie Endicott
Jeffie Obrea Allen Conner was born in 1895 on her family’s farm in Harrison Switch, Texas. She was the oldest of three children born to Meddie Lilian and Jeff D. Allen. Harrison Switch, later known as Harrison, was a small African American community…