Newspaper Clipping: Willie Rowe, February 6, 2013
- Title
- Newspaper Clipping: Willie Rowe, February 6, 2013
- Accession Number
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2026.38.1.14.1
2026.38.1.14.2 - Accession Date
- 16 June 2026
- Accession Creator
- Meadow Knapp
- Description
- The Greer Citizen newspaper clipping of an interview with Willie Rowe
- Contributor
- Amanda Bradford
- Date
- February 6, 2013
- Format
- Small newspaper clipping taped to the main newspaper clipping
- Storage Location
- Box 33, Folder #2
- Concerns
- The top is discolored to yellow
- Text
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ROWE: Feels blessed with his life
FROM PAGE ONE
And, they'd said you can turn and go right because it's full, but they had lines of cars behind me," Rowe said.
The different treatment he sometimes received didn't go unnoticed by Rowe, but he wasn't al-ways treated differently. When he began working for the Chapmans, he said they were always good to him.
"as for being blessed, God allowed me to have been blessed to not have been in some of those con-ditions," Rowe said. "Now when I came up, Mr. Chap-man, he was a really nice person, and his wife and his family, they were. I mean they really did treat me good, I mean really did. And I even saw when people would come in the shop and I saw him cor-rect them."
When Rowe first moved to Greer, he didn't have much, but he attests that people in Greer were al-ways good to him.
Willie first met his wife, Beverly Hazel, when her twin cousins introduced them. The two married in 1967 and have now been together for 45 years. In that time they have had three children, Wanda, Holly and Willie Price. The two are also grandparents to seven grandchildren and two great-grandchil-dren. This doesn't include the many children they consider their own grand-children, though not bio-logical.
Beverly grew up in Tay-lors and can remember walking to school. She said she went to a black school and it seemed like only the white children rode the bus. She said by the time her children started school, the school has been desegregated.
"They always said that we didn't have the buses to transport our kids to the schools, and a lot of our kids had to walk. By the time I went to Lincoln High School, we did get to ride the bus," Beverly said.
Willie was hesitant to talk about some of the things he had gone through because he said he knows a little girl who looks up to him who reads The Greer Citizen, and he didn't want her to see it. Saying that, "That was then, young ones can't grasp that."
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013
