![]() We had identification tags on our arms and no adult supervision. I was three and Bailey was five when we arrived in Stamps, Arkansas. They separated and sent me and Bailey to my father's mother in Arkansas. ![]() Neither wanted the responsibility of taking care of two toddlers. They even argued about how they were to break up. My parents soon proved to each other that they couldn't stay together. Vivian and Bailey left the contentious Baxter atmosphere and moved to California, where little Bailey was born. The Baxters said that meant he was just a negro cook. ![]() Vivian's parents were not happy that she was marrying a man from the south who was neither a doctor nor lawyer. ![]() The Baxter boys could not intimidate Bailey Johnson, especially after Vivian told them to lay off. He had been to war, and he was from the south, where a black man learned early that he had to stand up to threats, or else he wasn't a man. ![]()
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