Tracey Yvette Banks Rucker Carrington said: February 1, 2010 4:40 pm PST
Yes there were a lot of black folks there in Jenkinjones, A-Hallow and the Hallow up the Road and through out Jenkinjones, Otoole, and Anawalt. Ms. Gee's place for dancing and good fish. The Chruch up on the hill Morning Start Baptist, Rev. H.E. Price, and Rev. Hairston at Clinton Chapel AME Zion Methodist Church down in Jenkinjones, were our house was in front of that church and I grew up there with many brothers and sisters, Rev. Virginia Johnson Pastors Mt. Bethel Church down in Anawalt, who is married to my Uncle, Leonard Rucker. So yes there is a lot of Black History there. My Mother worked up at the Forestry Camp there at Leckie, Evelyn (Babe) Banks. Lots and lots of history there for black folks.