http://wikimarion.org/index.php?title=Oatess_Archey&feed=atom&action=historyOatess Archey - Revision history2024-03-29T07:27:28ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.28.3http://wikimarion.org/index.php?title=Oatess_Archey&diff=3706&oldid=prevRmlucas at 16:41, 29 April 20112011-04-29T16:41:41Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Oa: Well, when I was in high school, when I was your age, God blessed me with some athletic ability. I ended up being an all-stater in football, Marion Giant basketball player, starter on the basketball team in my senior year. I started some as a junior. In track and field, I was an all-stater. In fact, I’m Marion’s last state champion and record holder for track and field. I broke the state record, and I held state record in l20—yard hurdles from 1955 to 1962. And that’s Marion’s last state champion and record holder. After completing my high school career, I received six scholarships to college. One to Indiana University, Drake University, Tennessee State University. . .Tennessee State I had football, basketball, and track. The other schools were just track. Houston Tilliston College out in Austin, Texas, then I had Gramblin State in Louisiana. I ended up going to Gramblin State, because my older brother was there, and no one in our family had gone to college. . .Lucas I might tell you something that may be of great surprise to you. But my grandfather and great- grandfather migrated up here from Jackson, Tennessee, through Hopkinsville, Kentucky, riding bicycles from that area all the way to Marion. And they settled at 1709 South Meridian Street. My great—grandfather, John Boyd, had a shoe shop or he was a shoe cobbler. And a Marion <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Police Officer </del>stopped buy to pick up his shoes. An argument broke out between the two, and the police officer pulled his gun out and shot and killed my great-grandfather right on the spot. This was around 1895, my grandfather, who was 20, stood there and witnessed the shooting. He saw his father killed right in front of his eyes. Not much was done, because, you have to think about the times, my great-grandfather. . .this was 1895. They felt a little sorry for my grandfather, a little black kid who couldn’t read or write. So, they gave him a lifetime job on the Marion City Street Department. He started out around the square, of town here, with a barrel with wheels on it, a broom, and a dustpan, and he cleaned up all the trash. He graduated from that to the city sweeper. Old Marion <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">City </del>sweepers, one guy sat on the front, and that was my grandfather. He sat on the front with a stick, and he used to push the trash down in the front of the city sweeper, while the white guy drove the thing. And my grandfather inhaled all the dust and dirt and everything. Anyway, in 1960, a new mayor came in and he was saying, “Who’s this old codger, Tom Boyd or Tod Boyd, on the Marion City Street Department.” And they said, ”This Tom Boyd, Tod Boyd. He’s 85 years old, but he has a lifetime because of what happened to his father.” So the mayor said, “Where is it in writing?” And he said, “It’s not in writing. It has just went from one administration to the other.” So he said, “Get rid of him. Fire him.” So it was about this time of the year in April that he was fired from the Marion City Street Department. He lived two months, and he died, in July. The first part of July, around July 3rd, I believe it was. In 1960 he died. It just took his life. That was all he lived for. He started sleeping late, and they just changed his whole pattern. The guys on the city street department enjoyed working with him. He told them the old stories, about how Marion had changed. And they fired him. But he stressed education, to my brother and to myself.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Oa: Well, when I was in high school, when I was your age, God blessed me with some athletic ability. I ended up being an all-stater in football, Marion Giant basketball player, starter on the basketball team in my senior year. I started some as a junior. In track and field, I was an all-stater. In fact, I’m Marion’s last state champion and record holder for track and field. I broke the state record, and I held state record in l20—yard hurdles from 1955 to 1962. And that’s Marion’s last state champion and record holder.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They felt a little sorry for my grandfather, a little black kid who couldn’t read or write. So, they gave him a lifetime job on the Marion City Street Department. He started out around the square, of town here, with a barrel with wheels on it, a broom, and a dustpan, and he cleaned up all the trash. He graduated from that to the city sweeper. Old Marion <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">city </ins>sweepers, one guy sat on the front, and that was my grandfather. He sat on the front with a stick, and he used to push the trash down in the front of the city sweeper, while the white guy drove the thing. And my grandfather inhaled all the dust and dirt and everything. Anyway, in 1960, a new mayor came in and he was saying, “Who’s this old codger, Tom Boyd or Tod Boyd, on the Marion City Street Department.” And they said, ”This Tom Boyd, Tod Boyd. He’s 85 years old, but he has a lifetime because of what happened to his father.” So the mayor said, “Where is it in writing?” And he said, “It’s not in writing. It has just went from one administration to the other.” So he said, “Get rid of him. Fire him.” So it was about this time of the year in April that he was fired from the Marion City Street Department.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lw: Let’s begin then. Growing up in your life, I’m sure you had to deal with a lot of things that have had to do with segregation. In your everyday life, early on in your childhood, what restrictions or what things were you held back by, from segregation?  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lw: Let’s begin then. Growing up in your life, I’m sure you had to deal with a lot of things that have had to do with segregation. In your everyday life, early on in your childhood, what restrictions or what things were you held back by, from segregation?  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Oa: Well, growing up in Manon in the ‘30’s, I was born in 1937, Marion had just gone through the lynching, in 1930. I was born seven years after the lynching. Marion was still pretty tense. The life, especially for a young black male, was pretty tough. Name calling, not being allowed to swim at Matter Park. You had to swim either in the river. .. For the blacks that lived in central Marion, they swam in the river. The blacks that lived in south Marion swam in Deer Creek, out by Weber’s Junkyard. My family lived in north Marion. We were the only black family over there for a number of years. I think there might have been one other family, Alexanders, and they left.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Oa: Well, growing up in Manon in the ‘30’s, I was born in 1937, Marion had just gone through the lynching, in 1930. I was born seven years after the lynching. Marion was still pretty tense. The life, especially for a young black male, was pretty tough. Name calling, not being allowed to swim at Matter Park. You had to swim either in the river. . . For the blacks that lived in central Marion, they swam in the river. The blacks that lived in south Marion swam in Deer Creek, out by Weber’s Junkyard. My family lived in north Marion. We were the only black family over there for a number of years. I think there might have been one other family, Alexanders, and they left.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Black children who lived in south Marion would meet at 35th and Washington Street, at Allen Temple. We would take a couple of buses to Anderson, and swim all day at the Urban League Pool, over there. Going to the movies, the Paramount Theatre and the Indiana Theatre, where this office is now is where the Indiana Theatre was, we had to sit in the balcony, blacks were not allowed to sit downstairs. We couldn’t eat at any of the eating establishments around the courthouse or around the square, the little restaurants. They would either say to you to go, or wouldn’t serve you at all. You couldn’t swim at the YMCA, you could play Ping- Pong and basketball, but you couldn’t swim. It was tough, it was tough growing up being a young black male or female, in Marion during the ‘30’s, ‘40’s, ‘50’s, or ‘60’s.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Oatess Archey: <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[</del>My grandfather <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">worked putting] </del>the trash down in the front of the city sweeper, while the white guy drove the thing. And my grandfather inhaled all the dust and dirt and everything. Anyway, in 1960, a new mayor came in and he was saying, “Who’s this old codger, Tom Boyd or Tod Boyd, on the Marion City Street Department.” And they said, ”This Tom Boyd, Tod Boyd. He’s 85 years old, but he has a lifetime because of what happened to his father.” So the mayor said, “Where is it in writing?” And he said, “It’s not in writing. It has just went from one administration to the other.” So he said, “Get rid of him. Fire him.” So it was about this time of the year in April that he was fired from the Marion City Street Department. He lived two months, and he died, in July. The first part of July, around July 3rd, I believe it was. In 1960 he died. It just took his life. That was all he lived for. He started sleeping late, and they just changed his whole pattern. The guys on the city street department enjoyed working with him. He told them the old stories, about how Marion had changed. And they fired him. But he stressed education, to my brother and to myself.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Lw: My name is Lucas White, and I am interviewing Oatess Archey, in his offices. The date is April 27, 2001. Do I have pennission to interview you for the Community History Project? </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Lw: Let’s begin then. Growing up in your life, I’m sure you had to deal with a lot of things that have had to do with segregation. In your everyday life, early on in your childhood, what restrictions or what things were you held back by, from segregation? </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Oa</ins>: <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Well, growing up in Manon in the ‘30’s, I was born in 1937, Marion had just gone through the lynching, in 1930. I was born seven years after the lynching. Marion was still pretty tense. The life, especially for a young black male, was pretty tough. Name calling, not being allowed to swim at Matter Park. You had to swim either in the river. .. For the blacks that lived in central Marion, they swam in the river. The blacks that lived in south Marion swam in Deer Creek, out by Weber’s Junkyard. </ins>My <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">family lived in north Marion. We were the only black family over there for a number of years. I think there might have been one other family, Alexanders, and they left. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Oa: Okay, as I was saying during the ‘30’s, ‘40’s, and ‘50’s, it was pretty tough in Marion. Growing up in north Marion and being one of the only black families out there, my brother and myself we had to swim in a gravel pit over behind Washington School. It’s now no longer Washington School, its called Blirm Apartments, or something. We were not allowed to swim at Matter Park. Those of us, who wanted to learn how to swim, either swam, like I said, in the river, Deer Creek, or the gravel pit. Then Don Hawkins, a former Marion Police officer, who was a former military man, and a Navy man, well I guess he was in the Navy, he would take the black kids from Marion, we would catch a bus. The kids from central Marion would catch a bus, at 10th and Nebraska Street, at Bethel AME Church. And the rest of us would meet. . .well my brother and I would get with that group at 10th and Nebraska. Black children who lived in south Marion would meet at 35th and Washington Street, at Allen Temple. We would take a couple of buses to Anderson, and swim all day at the Urban League Pool, over there. Going to the movies, the Paramount Theatre and the Indiana Theatre, where this office is now is where the Indiana Theatre was, we had to sit in the balcony, blacks were not allowed to sit downstairs. We couldn’t eat at any of the eating establishments around the courthouse or around the square, the little restaurants. They would either say to you to go, or wouldn’t serve you at all. You couldn’t swim at the YMCA, you could play Ping- Pong and basketball, but you couldn’t swim. It was tough, it was tough growing up being a young black male or female, in Marion during the ‘30’s, ‘40’s, ‘50’s, or ‘60’s. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Lw: In the schools in Marion, when you went there, was there any segregation then? </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Oa: It wasn’t really open. We were allowed to talk to each other and socialize. There used to be, up on 3rd and Western, the Medigold. It was kind of a little hangout for all of the high school kids. We couldn’t go there. There used to be a little black club, out on...right across the street from Wesleyn Health Care Center, called the 36th club. It was kind of a dive, and the black kids would sneak there. Their parents would kill them, if they had caught them there, but there was no place else to go. Then there was another club, out in west Marion, called the Blue Ribbon. Then again, it was dive, and most of the black parents didn’t want their kids there. Eventually Marion built an Urban League. I think its now on 14th and Westeni or out in that area. And that is where we had to go to play basketball, play Ping-Pong, and dance. We really were not welcome at the YMCA or the YWCA. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Oa: Well, when I was in high school, when I was your age, God blessed me with some athletic ability. I ended up being an all-stater in football, Marion Giant basketball player, starter on the basketball team in my senior year. I started some as a junior. In track and field, I was an all-stater. In fact, I’m Marion’s last state champion and record holder for track and field. I broke the state record, and I held state record in l20—yard hurdles from 1955 to 1962. And that’s Marion’s last state champion and record holder. After completing my high school career, I received six scholarships to college. One to Indiana University, Drake University, Tennessee State University. . .Tennessee State I had football, basketball, and track. The other schools were just track. Houston Tilliston College out in Austin, Texas, then I had Gramblin State in Louisiana. I ended up going to Gramblin State, because my older brother was there, and no one in our family had gone to college. . .Lucas I might tell you something that may be of great surprise to you. But my grandfather and great- grandfather migrated up here from Jackson, Tennessee, through Hopkinsville, Kentucky, riding bicycles from that area all the way to Marion. And they settled at 1709 South Meridian Street. My great—grandfather, John Boyd, had a shoe shop or he was a shoe cobbler. And a Marion Police Officer stopped buy to pick up his shoes. An argument broke out between the two, and the police officer pulled his gun out and shot and killed my great-grandfather right on the spot. This was around 1895, my grandfather, who was 20, stood there and witnessed the shooting. He saw his father killed right in front of his eyes. Not much was done, because, you have to think about the times, my great-grandfather. . .this was 1895. They felt a little sorry for my grandfather, a little black kid who couldn’t read or write. So, they gave him a lifetime job on the Marion City Street Department. He started out around the square, of town here, with a barrel with wheels on it, a broom, and a dustpan, and he cleaned up all the trash. He graduated from that to the city sweeper. Old Marion City sweepers, one guy sat on the front, and that was my </ins>grandfather<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. He sat on the front with a stick, and he used to push </ins>the trash down in the front of the city sweeper, while the white guy drove the thing. And my grandfather inhaled all the dust and dirt and everything. Anyway, in 1960, a new mayor came in and he was saying, “Who’s this old codger, Tom Boyd or Tod Boyd, on the Marion City Street Department.” And they said, ”This Tom Boyd, Tod Boyd. He’s 85 years old, but he has a lifetime because of what happened to his father.” So the mayor said, “Where is it in writing?” And he said, “It’s not in writing. It has just went from one administration to the other.” So he said, “Get rid of him. Fire him.” So it was about this time of the year in April that he was fired from the Marion City Street Department. He lived two months, and he died, in July. The first part of July, around July 3rd, I believe it was. In 1960 he died. It just took his life. That was all he lived for. He started sleeping late, and they just changed his whole pattern. The guys on the city street department enjoyed working with him. He told them the old stories, about how Marion had changed. And they fired him. But he stressed education, to my brother and to myself.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Oa: Uh-huh. I went to college, and when I was freshman at Grambling State University, I placed 7th in the national track meet, in San Diego, California. My sophomore year, I was getting better and better, and I pulled a muscle, hamstring muscle, and it just ended my track career. I ended up having about 15 cc’s of blood taken out of my leg. So, I just basically gave up track. I ran, but I wasn’t very good after that. But my aspirations were to get to the Olympics, but I had damaged my leg so badly, that I had scar tissue, that I just started hitting the books to become an honor student.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Oa: Uh-huh. I went to college, and when I was freshman at Grambling State University, I placed 7th in the national track meet, in San Diego, California. My sophomore year, I was getting better and better, and I pulled a muscle, hamstring muscle, and it just ended my track career. I ended up having about 15 cc’s of blood taken out of my leg. So, I just basically gave up track. I ran, but I wasn’t very good after that. But my aspirations were to get to the Olympics, but I had damaged my leg so badly, that I had scar tissue, that I just started hitting the books to become an honor student.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[image:Young_Oatess_Archey1.jpg|thumb|300px|Oatess Archey & Dr. William Clary of McCulloch School showing 3 boys, Ben Alvarez, Gary Real & Tom Cox, some basketball moves. Photo was made for Equal Opportunity Week., Nov. 17, 1960.]]I came home, and they said, “Haven’t you noticed? We don’t have any black teachers in Marion, but if you want to work for the Marion Community Schools System, you can be a janitor.” So they sent me to the football field, the old football field, behind McCulloch, Memorial Field as it was called then. “You know track and field, Mr. All-Stater, line the track. Mr. All-stater in football, line the football field. Welcome home. Here’s your toilet bowl brush. Clean out the toilet bowls. Clean out the trash from underneath the bleachers.” Yeah, it was really taken back. You know, all these people had yelled and screamed for me only four years before. I was only four years older, same person, but now Marion had turned their back on me. They didn’t know me. I ended up being a janitor.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[image:Young_Oatess_Archey1.jpg|thumb|300px|Oatess Archey & Dr. William Clary of McCulloch School showing 3 boys, Ben Alvarez, Gary Real & Tom Cox, some basketball moves. Photo was made for Equal Opportunity Week., Nov. 17, 1960.]]I came home, and they said, “Haven’t you noticed? We don’t have any black teachers in Marion, but if you want to work for the Marion Community Schools System, you can be a janitor.” So they sent me to the football field, the old football field, behind McCulloch, Memorial Field as it was called then. “You know track and field, Mr. All-Stater, line the track. Mr. All-stater in football, line the football field. Welcome home. Here’s your toilet bowl brush. Clean out the toilet bowls. Clean out the trash from underneath the bleachers.” Yeah, it was really taken back. You know, all these people had yelled and screamed for me only four years before. I was only four years older, same person, but now Marion had turned their back on me. They didn’t know me. I ended up being a janitor.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[image:Young_Oatess_Archey2.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Oatess Archey and Dr. William Clary]] </del>I recall the superintendent coming out... I came home in June, and worked at the RCA a couple of weeks, and got laid off in a summer shut down. Then I went to General Motors, worked out there about three weeks, and got laid off, in a steel strike in 1959. Then I went with the Marion Community Schools System, as a janitor. I worked from probably July until about October, as a janitor at the football field. And the superintendent came out and asked me if I still wanted to teach school. And I said, “Oh sure, of course!” So, he told me to be down to the administration building on Monday, this was a Friday. I told my family and my wife’s family, “I’m going to be a school teacher.” And Monday, I went down to the administration office, filled out my teachers contract, for $4200, that’s what all teachers were making back then.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I recall the superintendent coming out... I came home in June, and worked at the RCA a couple of weeks, and got laid off in a summer shut down. Then I went to General Motors, worked out there about three weeks, and got laid off, in a steel strike in 1959. Then I went with the Marion Community Schools System, as a janitor. I worked from probably July until about October, as a janitor at the football field. And the superintendent came out and asked me if I still wanted to teach school. And I said, “Oh sure, of course!” So, he told me to be down to the administration building on Monday, this was a Friday. I told my family and my wife’s family, “I’m going to be a school teacher.” And Monday, I went down to the administration office, filled out my teachers contract, for $4200, that’s what all teachers were making back then.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After I filled out my contract, the superintendent's secretary took me into see the superintendent. So I asked Dr. Simon, I couldn’t hold the anticipation any longer, so I asked him, “Where am I going to teach?” And he took of his glasses, and kind of blew on them and humholed around. And I thought, “What’s going on here?” And he said, “Well, you’re really not going to teach. We have a situation, in back of the coliseum. It’s a little elementary school.” It was a little portable school. It was a little white building. There was about four of them at the time, I think it was. Kindergarten to 5th grade, four or five of them. And he said, “The teacher is losing control of her class, if she hasn’t already lost control of her class. She’s a lady from Fairmount, Indiana, and all we want you to do is sit in the back of the classroom, and keep the kids quiet, while she teaches them. In other words, we want you to be a bouncer or a sergeant of arms.”  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After I filled out my contract, the superintendent's secretary took me into see the superintendent. So I asked Dr. Simon, I couldn’t hold the anticipation any longer, so I asked him, “Where am I going to teach?” And he took of his glasses, and kind of blew on them and humholed around. And I thought, “What’s going on here?” And he said, “Well, you’re really not going to teach. We have a situation, in back of the coliseum. It’s a little elementary school.” It was a little portable school. It was a little white building. There was about four of them at the time, I think it was. Kindergarten to 5th grade, four or five of them. And he said, “The teacher is losing control of her class, if she hasn’t already lost control of her class. She’s a lady from Fairmount, Indiana, and all we want you to do is sit in the back of the classroom, and keep the kids quiet, while she teaches them. In other words, we want you to be a bouncer or a sergeant of arms.”  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>So the next year, I went to the principal and the assistant principal, Mr. Clevenger and Mr. James, at Martin Boots. And I asked them, “Can I just go to Martin Boots full time, to the middle school or junior high school.” It used to be 7th 8th and 9th So they said, “Yeah, we want you full time.” So I got you out of the elementary school. So asked them, “Can I coach?” “Well, we have to go to the school board.” So we go to the school board, and they’re like, “I don’t know... I guess we’ll let him coach. They were grumbling, “What are the people going to think? We don’t know what the reaction will be putting the black guy as a coach.” So they said, “Let him be 7th and 8th grade assistant football coach.” To the math teacher, who had never played sports in his life. I’m his assistant. Now some of those people are Willie Campbell, who works at Dana, Don Grant, who was a deputy sheriff here, but those are some of the kids I started out with. “Can I coach basketball?” “No, you just feel lucky you have a job.”  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>So the next year, I went to the principal and the assistant principal, Mr. Clevenger and Mr. James, at Martin Boots. And I asked them, “Can I just go to Martin Boots full time, to the middle school or junior high school.” It used to be 7th 8th and 9th So they said, “Yeah, we want you full time.” So I got you out of the elementary school. So asked them, “Can I coach?” “Well, we have to go to the school board.” So we go to the school board, and they’re like, “I don’t know... I guess we’ll let him coach. They were grumbling, “What are the people going to think? We don’t know what the reaction will be putting the black guy as a coach.” So they said, “Let him be 7th and 8th grade assistant football coach.” To the math teacher, who had never played sports in his life. I’m his assistant. Now some of those people are Willie Campbell, who works at Dana, Don Grant, who was a deputy sheriff here, but those are some of the kids I started out with. “Can I coach basketball?” “No, you just feel lucky you have a job.”  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I came home, and they said, “Haven’t you noticed? We don’t have any black teachers in Marion, but if you want to work for the Marion Community Schools System, you can be a janitor.” So they sent me to the football field, the old football field, behind McCulloch, Memorial Field as it was called then. “You know track and field, Mr. All-Stater, line the track. Mr. All-stater in football, line the football field. Welcome home. Here’s your toilet bowl brush. Clean out the toilet bowls. Clean out the trash from underneath the bleachers.” Yeah, it was really taken back. You know, all these people had yelled and screamed for me only four years before. I was only four years older, same person, but now Marion had turned their back on me. They didn’t know me. I ended up being a janitor.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[image:Young_Oatess_Archey1.jpg|thumb|300px|Oatess Archey & Dr. William Clary of McCulloch School showing 3 boys, Ben Alvarez, Gary Real & Tom Cox, some basketball moves. Photo was made for Equal Opportunity Week., Nov. 17, 1960.]]</ins>I came home, and they said, “Haven’t you noticed? We don’t have any black teachers in Marion, but if you want to work for the Marion Community Schools System, you can be a janitor.” So they sent me to the football field, the old football field, behind McCulloch, Memorial Field as it was called then. “You know track and field, Mr. All-Stater, line the track. Mr. All-stater in football, line the football field. Welcome home. Here’s your toilet bowl brush. Clean out the toilet bowls. Clean out the trash from underneath the bleachers.” Yeah, it was really taken back. You know, all these people had yelled and screamed for me only four years before. I was only four years older, same person, but now Marion had turned their back on me. They didn’t know me. I ended up being a janitor.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>My parents, my father had a fifth grade education, because he was hurt. Then he wasn’t expected to live, to be older than 12 years old. His sister tipped him over in a highchair, and almost killed him accidentally. She was older than him, about three or four years older. And they thought he was going to die. He hemorrhaged a lot, but he lived to be 79 years old. My mother she went to Marion High School, and she went till the 11th grade. Then she quit. But our parents talked to my brother, Tom, and I, about the importance of education. And my brother, Tom, is now a Ph.D. He is a retired high school principal, and also at the present time, he teaches at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas. I finished up getting a BS degree. I have a Master’s degree, and a year beyond. I was working towards a Ph.D., when I went into the FBI.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Oa: Uh-huh. I went to college, and when I was freshman at Grambling State University, I placed 7th in the national track meet, in San Diego, California. My sophomore year, I was getting better and better, and I pulled a muscle, hamstring muscle, and it just ended my track career. I ended up having about 15 cc’s of blood taken out of my leg. So, I just basically gave up track. I ran, but I wasn’t very good after that. But my aspirations were to get to the Olympics, but I had damaged my leg so badly, that I had scar tissue, that I just started hitting the books to become an honor student. So I graduated from college, and came home, with all expectations of being a teacher/coach. I never thought about it, just like you, as a high school boy. I never thought about segregation, really, because I was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">there </del>boy when I was in high school. I was a Marion Giant basketball player. Everybody loved me, I thought. When I came home, they slammed the door in my face. My teachers, counselors, parents, grandparents, grandfather, neighbors, preachers, everybody said, “Keep your nose clean, and good things will come to you.” I did that. I came home, and they said, “Haven’t you noticed? We don’t have any black teachers in Marion, but if you want to work for the Marion Community Schools System, you can be a janitor.” So they sent me to the football field, the old football field, behind McCulloch, Memorial Field as it was called then. “You know track and field, Mr. All-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">stater</del>, line the track. Mr. All-stater in football, line the football field. Welcome home. Here’s your toilet bowl brush. Clean out the toilet bowls. Clean out the trash from underneath the bleachers.” Yeah, it was really taken back. You know, all these people had yelled and screamed for me only four years before. I was only four years older, same person, but now Marion had turned their back on me. They didn’t know me. I ended up being a janitor. I recall the superintendent coming out. . .<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1 </del>came home in June, and worked at the RCA a couple of weeks, and got laid off in a summer shut down. Then I went to General Motors, worked out there about three weeks, and got laid off, in a steel strike in 1959. Then I went with the Marion Community Schools System, as a janitor. I worked from probably July until about October, as a janitor at the football field. And the superintendent came out and asked me if I still wanted to teach school. And I said, “Oh sure, of course!” So, he told me to be down to the administration building on Monday, this was a Friday. I told my family and my wife’s family, “I’m going to be a school teacher.” And Monday, I went down to the administration office, filled out my teachers contract, for $4200, that’s what all teachers were making back then. After I filled out my contract, the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">superintendents </del>secretary took me into see the superintendent. So I asked Dr. Simon, I couldn’t hold the anticipation any longer, so I asked him, “Where am I going to teach?” And he took of his glasses, and kind of blew on them and humholed around. And I thought, “What’s going on here?” And he said, “Well, you’re really not going to teach. We have a situation, in back of the coliseum. It’s a little elementary school.” It was a little portable school. It was a little white building. There was about four of them at the time, I think it was. Kindergarten to 5th grade, four or five of them. And he said, “The teacher is losing control of her class, if she hasn’t already lost control of her class. She’s a lady from Fairmount, Indiana, and all we want you to do is sit in the back of the classroom, and keep the kids quiet, while she teaches them. In other words, we want you to be a bouncer or a sergeant of arms.” So, I sat there and I said.. .<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1 </del>just sat there stunned. So he said, “Do you want the job, yes or no?” I was 22, I had no one to talk to, no one to go to, and I said, “Yeah, yeah.” He said, “Well, follow me.” He took me over to Grant Elementary School. My degree was in secondary education. I wasn’t an elementary teacher. He takes me over there, and he says, “I’m going to take you to the 5th grade class. These kids are rambunctious, and they just need someone to keep them under control, while the teacher teaches them.” Back in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s, there was a boxer, by the name of Archie Moore, and the kids all thought I was Archie Moore the professional boxer. They were all afraid of me. I guess I had that mean look on my face. I was pretty tort, you know, what had happened to me. Now they’re all adults, and they tell me, “Mr. Archey, we were afraid of you. We all thought you were Archie Moore the professional boxer, and you were going to box our ears.” So anyway, I was sitting in the back of the room, in a wooden chair with no arms. And I would say to the kids, “Where are you going? Give me that paper wad. Give me that tack. No you can’t sharpen your pencil.” So by lunchtime I had them under control. Then I went out to lunch, and I came back. I was sitting in the back of the classroom, and I was thinking to myself, “I can’t do this.” And I got through the day, and I went home. And my young wife said to me, “Tell me about the first day.” And I told her. She said, “You’ve got to be kidding me?” And I said, “No, and I’m not going back tomorrow. I’m going back to the football field. This is really not teaching, and I’m not using my education.” And she says, “Wait a minute now. You’ve got your foot in the door. Let’s think about this. You want to be a coach. What grade is it?” And I said, "5th grade, and I’m not an elementary teacher.” And she said, “That doesn’t make any difference. You’ve got your foot in the door. Help them. What are they doing?” I said, “Multiplication tables, division.” She said, “Well, help them. Read to them. Grade papers.” So I go back the next day, and talk to the teacher about grading papers. So she gives me a stack about eight inches thick. I took the kids out for recess. The kids started to enjoy being with me; I enjoyed being with them. Then it started to get cold. It was like in December, January. The other teachers started to dump on me, by saying, “Oh, Mr. Archey, Miss, so and so’s class...”<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>I won’t say her name<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>“seems to be having so much fun. Can you take my class out?” So, what they were doing, they were all inside, drinking coffee, and waving at me. And I was standing out there, as young 22 year old, you know, freezing my buns off. And I got through that year. The next year, they closed down Grant Elementary School. So they sent part of those kids out to Allen, the other part to Clayton Brownlee. And they didn’t know what to do with me, so I’m the experimental black guy. They send me out to McCulloch in the morning, still as a PE teacher. My classroom, I had elementary kids, on the stage. They gave me a trampoline and a mat. That was my classroom. “Welcome home.” In the afternoons, they sent me to Martin Boots. They just wanted to experiment with me. They feared the whites in the communities would not accept me, which was not true. The kids loved me, and I loved them. And the parents, I didn’t have any problems. So I go to Martin Boots in the afternoon. I taught health, and I taught history. I asked them, “Could I coach?” “No! Feel lucky that you’ve got a job.” That’s what they were telling me. So the next year, I went to the principal and the assistant principal, Mr. Clevenger and Mr. James, at Martin Boots. And I asked them, “Can I just go to Martin Boots full time, to the middle school or junior high school.” It used to be 7th 8th and 9th So they said, “Yeah, we want you full time.” So I got you out of the elementary school. So asked them, “Can I coach?” “Well, we have to go to the school board.” So we go to the school board, and they’re like, “I don’t know... I guess we’ll let him coach. They were grumbling, “What are the people going to think? We don’t know what the reaction will be putting the black guy as a coach.” So they said, “Let him be 7th and 8th grade assistant football coach.” To the math teacher, who had never played sports in his life. I’m his assistant. Now some of those people are Willie Campbell, who works at Dana, Don Grant, who was a deputy sheriff here, but those are some of the kids I started out with. “Can I coach basketball?” “No, you just feel lucky you have a job.” The next year I said, “What about basketball? Remember I used to shoot the old pill for the Marion Giants?” “Yeah. Okay, I guess.” They started mumbling and grumbling around. “Okay, let him coach 7th grade.” Now remember, it used to be 7th, 8th and 9th They started me at the bottom, 7th grade. So the first year, I was 22-0. The second year, they say, “Hey. Oatess knows basketball.” So they move me up to the 8thi grade. Guess what? Second year 22-0. Okay, then they move me up to the 9th grade. So in four years, I become the winningest basketball coach in Marion, with a record of 64 wins and 7 defeats. So the Marion High School basketball coach gets fired. So I put in for the job. They didn’t even interview me, didn’t even interview me, didn’t even get a smell. So they brought in another coach from the outside. So I put in for the JV job, like Mr. Smedley’s son. So they call me in. Guess what they said to me during the interview? “If you don’t get the job, how would that make you feel?” And I told them, “It would make me feel terrible.” I got interviewed down at the old coliseum, and I said, “I’ve worked hard, and I feel I deserve the job.” I remember saying this, quote, “If I don’t get the job, I’m not going to go over here to Washington Street Bridge with my basketball and place it under my arm, and jump off. But I will be disappointed.” Guess what? The next morning, I picked up the Chronicle newspaper, and they gave it to one of my friends, who was two years younger than me. He had come back... when I was a Marion Giant as a senior, he was a sophomore. He had a basketball record of 15-15. That’s what percent?</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Oa: Uh-huh. I went to college, and when I was freshman at Grambling State University, I placed 7th in the national track meet, in San Diego, California. My sophomore year, I was getting better and better, and I pulled a muscle, hamstring muscle, and it just ended my track career. I ended up having about 15 cc’s of blood taken out of my leg. So, I just basically gave up track. I ran, but I wasn’t very good after that. But my aspirations were to get to the Olympics, but I had damaged my leg so badly, that I had scar tissue, that I just started hitting the books to become an honor student.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I came home, and they said, “Haven’t you noticed? We don’t have any black teachers in Marion, but if you want to work for the Marion Community Schools System, you can be a janitor.” So they sent me to the football field, the old football field, behind McCulloch, Memorial Field as it was called then. “You know track and field, Mr. All-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Stater</ins>, line the track. Mr. All-stater in football, line the football field. Welcome home. Here’s your toilet bowl brush. Clean out the toilet bowls. Clean out the trash from underneath the bleachers.” Yeah, it was really taken back. You know, all these people had yelled and screamed for me only four years before. I was only four years older, same person, but now Marion had turned their back on me. They didn’t know me. I ended up being a janitor.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I recall the superintendent coming out... <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I </ins>came home in June, and worked at the RCA a couple of weeks, and got laid off in a summer shut down. Then I went to General Motors, worked out there about three weeks, and got laid off, in a steel strike in 1959. Then I went with the Marion Community Schools System, as a janitor. I worked from probably July until about October, as a janitor at the football field. And the superintendent came out and asked me if I still wanted to teach school. And I said, “Oh sure, of course!” So, he told me to be down to the administration building on Monday, this was a Friday. I told my family and my wife’s family, “I’m going to be a school teacher.” And Monday, I went down to the administration office, filled out my teachers contract, for $4200, that’s what all teachers were making back then.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After I filled out my contract, the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">superintendent's </ins>secretary took me into see the superintendent. So I asked Dr. Simon, I couldn’t hold the anticipation any longer, so I asked him, “Where am I going to teach?” And he took of his glasses, and kind of blew on them and humholed around. And I thought, “What’s going on here?” And he said, “Well, you’re really not going to teach. We have a situation, in back of the coliseum. It’s a little elementary school.” It was a little portable school. It was a little white building. There was about four of them at the time, I think it was. Kindergarten to 5th grade, four or five of them. And he said, “The teacher is losing control of her class, if she hasn’t already lost control of her class. She’s a lady from Fairmount, Indiana, and all we want you to do is sit in the back of the classroom, and keep the kids quiet, while she teaches them. In other words, we want you to be a bouncer or a sergeant of arms.”  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>So, I sat there and I said... <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I </ins>just sat there stunned. So he said, “Do you want the job, yes or no?” I was 22, I had no one to talk to, no one to go to, and I said, “Yeah, yeah.” He said, “Well, follow me.” He took me over to Grant Elementary School. My degree was in secondary education. I wasn’t an elementary teacher. He takes me over there, and he says, “I’m going to take you to the 5th grade class. These kids are rambunctious, and they just need someone to keep them under control, while the teacher teaches them.” Back in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s, there was a boxer, by the name of Archie Moore, and the kids all thought I was Archie Moore the professional boxer. They were all afraid of me. I guess I had that mean look on my face. I was pretty tort, you know, what had happened to me. Now they’re all adults, and they tell me, “Mr. Archey, we were afraid of you. We all thought you were Archie Moore the professional boxer, and you were going to box our ears.” <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>So anyway, I was sitting in the back of the room, in a wooden chair with no arms. And I would say to the kids, “Where are you going? Give me that paper wad. Give me that tack. No you can’t sharpen your pencil.” So by lunchtime I had them under control. Then I went out to lunch, and I came back. I was sitting in the back of the classroom, and I was thinking to myself, “I can’t do this.”  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>And I got through the day, and I went home. And my young wife said to me, “Tell me about the first day.” And I told her. She said, “You’ve got to be kidding me?” And I said, “No, and I’m not going back tomorrow. I’m going back to the football field. This is really not teaching, and I’m not using my education.” And she says, “Wait a minute now. You’ve got your foot in the door. Let’s think about this. You want to be a coach. What grade is it?” And I said, "5th grade, and I’m not an elementary teacher.” And she said, “That doesn’t make any difference. You’ve got your foot in the door. Help them. What are they doing?” I said, “Multiplication tables, division.” She said, “Well, help them. Read to them. Grade papers.”  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>So I go back the next day, and talk to the teacher about grading papers. So she gives me a stack about eight inches thick. I took the kids out for recess. The kids started to enjoy being with me; I enjoyed being with them. Then it started to get cold. It was like in December, January. The other teachers started to dump on me, by saying, “Oh, Mr. Archey, Miss, so and so’s class...”<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">--</ins>I won’t say her name<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">--</ins>“seems to be having so much fun. Can you take my class out?” So, what they were doing, they were all inside, drinking coffee, and waving at me. And I was standing out there, as young 22 year old, you know, freezing my buns off.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>And I got through that year. The next year, they closed down Grant Elementary School. So they sent part of those kids out to Allen, the other part to Clayton Brownlee. And they didn’t know what to do with me, so I’m the experimental black guy. They send me out to McCulloch in the morning, still as a PE teacher. My classroom, I had elementary kids, on the stage. They gave me a trampoline and a mat. That was my classroom. “Welcome home.” In the afternoons, they sent me to Martin Boots. They just wanted to experiment with me. They feared the whites in the communities would not accept me, which was not true. The kids loved me, and I loved them. And the parents, I didn’t have any problems. So I go to Martin Boots in the afternoon. I taught health, and I taught history. I asked them, “Could I coach?” “No! Feel lucky that you’ve got a job.” That’s what they were telling me.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>So the next year, I went to the principal and the assistant principal, Mr. Clevenger and Mr. James, at Martin Boots. And I asked them, “Can I just go to Martin Boots full time, to the middle school or junior high school.” It used to be 7th 8th and 9th So they said, “Yeah, we want you full time.” So I got you out of the elementary school. So asked them, “Can I coach?” “Well, we have to go to the school board.” So we go to the school board, and they’re like, “I don’t know... I guess we’ll let him coach. They were grumbling, “What are the people going to think? We don’t know what the reaction will be putting the black guy as a coach.” So they said, “Let him be 7th and 8th grade assistant football coach.” To the math teacher, who had never played sports in his life. I’m his assistant. Now some of those people are Willie Campbell, who works at Dana, Don Grant, who was a deputy sheriff here, but those are some of the kids I started out with. “Can I coach basketball?” “No, you just feel lucky you have a job.” The next year I said, “What about basketball? Remember I used to shoot the old pill for the Marion Giants?” “Yeah. Okay, I guess.” They started mumbling and grumbling around. “Okay, let him coach 7th grade.” Now remember, it used to be 7th, 8th and 9th They started me at the bottom, 7th grade. So the first year, I was 22-0. The second year, they say, “Hey. Oatess knows basketball.” So they move me up to the 8thi grade. Guess what? Second year 22-0. Okay, then they move me up to the 9th grade. So in four years, I become the winningest basketball coach in Marion, with a record of 64 wins and 7 defeats. So the Marion High School basketball coach gets fired. So I put in for the job. They didn’t even interview me, didn’t even interview me, didn’t even get a smell. So they brought in another coach from the outside. So I put in for the JV job, like Mr. Smedley’s son. So they call me in. Guess what they said to me during the interview? “If you don’t get the job, how would that make you feel?” And I told them, “It would make me feel terrible.” I got interviewed down at the old coliseum, and I said, “I’ve worked hard, and I feel I deserve the job.” I remember saying this, quote, “If I don’t get the job, I’m not going to go over here to Washington Street Bridge with my basketball and place it under my arm, and jump off. But I will be disappointed.” Guess what? The next morning, I picked up the Chronicle newspaper, and they gave it to one of my friends, who was two years younger than me. He had come back... when I was a Marion Giant as a senior, he was a sophomore. He had a basketball record of 15-15. That’s what percent?</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lw: 0.500</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lw: 0.500</div></td></tr>
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