Kamiya


Blacks:

 Aunt


Dinah laundry woman. Came to the Kamiya house

to wash, iron and scrub the kitchen floor (a wooden

floor). The kitchen was the only floor she scrubbed.

She boiled the clothes over a wood fie. Her

daughter Pauline continued doing the same things

after Aunt Dinah retired or died.


 They had an easy relationship with the blacks.

 They did not socialize, but they respected each

 other. Mrs. Kamiya (Masuko's mother), even when

 Masuko was a child, though it unnecessary

 (thought what unnecessary? probably the strict

 segregation of whites and blacks (Japanese were

 considered white in the context of the times)).

 Editor's note: The above statement is an interpre-
 tation of original notes taken during
 the interview which are not clear.


Other blacks: Kooty Cat (a woman) and her brother Snooky.


One family of blacks had a house near the Kamiyas

 across the Dixie Highway. Others lived in scattered

 houses in the area. Pearl City was the black town

 next to Boca Raton.