Note: Jones recalls a question that was considered in her debating society in Milan, Georgia: whether one would save one's wife or mother in a house fire. One of the members of the society, Bessie says, later moved north and married a white woman.
About the session: The last of 21 recording sessions with Bessie Jones.
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