Shirley Baker
I get it, she can't read.
BUT, you would think that at least once in her life (I'd say she's around 25), she probably seen her name spelled out and should recognize it.
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She was a woman, raised in the rural South during the Great Depression. She likely never went to school and certainly would not have had occasion to write her name, let alone recognize it if anyone else wrote it down. In many parts of the rural South, most people signed their names just by making an "X" in front of a witness, who certified that the person signing "made his mark". Which is where that phrase comes from.
shareFair enough. I didn't consider that.
shareYeah sure all illiterate people during that time lived in the south.
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No, not all illiterate people came from the South, but many did. My father told me that when he trained for the Army in the 1940s, he met a lot of men who not only couldn't read, but didn't recognize most of the alphabet. Some of them never owned a pair of shoes until they were issued army boots.
In any case, Shirley Baker had a southern accent so the observation that she was raised in the South during the Depression seems fair.
it was different back then--even in the north. My grandfather who fought in World War II did not finish high school. he didn't need to.
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