KNOXVILLE G 017.04 MLX 71 lA: b. Knoxville. Passenger train porter; Church of God; 6th-7th gr. Fifty yr. with Southern Railroad, two trips per week. Mother: b. Jonesboro, Tenn.; little formal education; schoolteacher. MGP: slaves, probably from Va. Father: b. Greensboro, N.C.; 6th gr.; brakeman on Southern Railroad. PGP: slaves. Wife: 68; teacher; Church of God; more than 2 yr. college; mother b. Kingston, Roane Co.: father b. Beaver Creek, Knox Co. Alert, intelligent, with a fine sense of humor. Many features of modified plantation speech and few characteristic mountain forms. Background suggests some cultivation. A wholly urbanized man since boyhood days. LP/72:LP/72 4 hr. 30 min.