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From YouTube: Tell Arlington's Story: Mattie Walker "We Were Cocooned"
Description
In this latest episode of Tell Arlington's Story, Mattie Walker talks about segregation and child rearing in Arlington VA in the 1930s.
A
The
if
I'd
like
to
give
you
a
picture
of
what
Arlington
was
like
about.
You
are
dead
ified
by
your
families
and
they
were
families.
We
were
had
migrated
here.
My
father
was
work,
one
of
the
younger
ones
as
far
as
residence.
It
was
concerned
because
people
were
there
who
in
arlington,
who
had
been
here
back
to
the
time
of
Friedman's
village,
and
it
was
a
very
stable
community
and
it
was
a
very
cohesive
community.
It
was
very
cohesive
and
the
people
were
very
close-knit
and
at
that
time
people
took
care
of
each
other's
children.
A
Later
on
someone
wrote
a
book,
I
think
it
was
our
Secretary
of
State.
It
takes
a
village.
Well,
that's
exactly
the
way
it
was
and
we
were
I
used.
The
word
cocooned.
We
were
cocooned
because
Arlington
was
a
very
segregated
trace
and
segregation
is
ugly
I,
don't
care
where
it
takes
place.
It
was
a
very
rigid,
but
this
had
the
same.
The
thing
that
saved
us
was
that
there
was
nothing
here
to
segregate.
A
Arlington
was
a
backwater
yeah.
There
was
nothing
here.
There
were
no
restaurants,
they
wouldn't
lose
and
we
lived
right
next
door
to
Washington.
We
didn't
even
call
it
Washington,
we
said
in
town
and
we
would
ride
our
bicycles
down
and
go
to
the
museums
and
so
forth
and
just
do
all
kinds
of
things
and
then
to
if
they're,
a
part
of
it
was
the
style
of
child-rearing.
Our
parents
took
great
care
to
keep
us
insulated
from
things
they
didn't
talk
about
things
with
children
were
around
and
they
steered
you.
I
can
remember.