Interview with Julia B Moore
A teachers’ teacher provides a history of Scotlandville, LA, Jim Crow and her wise opinions on everything from education to politics with some surprising laughs.
Count Time Podcast Living Legend
An engaging discussion with Living Legend Julia B Moore cancer survivor, teacher and activist. Methodism, and her current mission are a few of the many topics described by Ms. Moore in her passionate story telling style.
Faced with a lynch mob the residents of Scotlandville raised their guns to the sky and prayed “God be with us tonight, Amen.”
Selected quotes and notes from Count Time Podcast with LD Azobra Interview with Julia B Moore
Good evening. Good evening. Good evening it’s 4:00 PM. Stand up it’s count time, time for every man and woman to stand up and be counted. Welcome to another edition of Count Time podcast. I am brother LD Azobra formerly named Lyman white. Thank you for joining us today.
Today we have another true legend. I mean, one. We are honored to have her here today. It’s my honor and pleasure to have to meet with her. She’s a historian, scholar. she’s someone in the community been in this community for a long time. Matter of fact, you just told us her birthday is coming up at the end of this week. So we fear even that much more honor. And she’s a breast cancer survivor two time breast cancer survivor. So this young lady have gone through a lot.
LD
This lady don’t like that. This lady take charge, but she’s going to be 96 this
year this week so she can have it her way. We ain’t going to sit here at argue and have no complications with us. Ms. Julia Bradford Moore, welcome to Count Time.
JBM
Thank you happy to participate.
LD
No, we are honored to have you at 96 and still going strong. You all This is beautiful And you got that tall, elegant look.
JBM
That’s what I asked God for. I asked him, don’t come get me till 96 to 26 because he had given me things to do. And I have not finished the jobs he gave me.
LD
You talk to God.
JBM
Don’t You talk to God.
LD
We like to thank Camphor Memorial United Methodist Church for allowing us to host this interview with Miss Moore over here. So thank you, Pastor, for allowing us to be here now. So we at the Church now. You just made a comment. You said you asked the Lord, not to come get you until when? we know you’re not going anywhere.
JBM
He gave me things to do with reference to women and men with reference to cancer? And I have not finished a job he gave me. Once a month We hold cross country, better than 100 men and women from across the United States. We come together and learn about how to deal with cancer, with breast cancer. So we brought them in and then we have speakers and we have representatives from California, Nevada, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Maryland.
LD
You’ve been doing this since 90?
JBM
No, the cross country connection just since the pandemic.
LD
So you zooming in and all this stuff now,
JBM
I don’t know about that. God spoke to me and told me to call the women of color together and what you need I will provide depend upon me. And I don’t take any presents on my birthday. So any money that anybody could give me to give it to the coalition or in the Scotland community. And so they called Rigor. They called Smith and they called Willie Drago to the meeting.
They went and they told them, don’t do that. These are peace loving colored People pay their bills, go to Church and then work every day. They don’t owe us nothing. They’re peace abiding citizens. Why do you want to do that? Because they think they better than us.
Well Rigor and them came back and called the black preachers. Rev. Wilkins, Rev. Washington called them together. This is what’s going to happen. Like it or not, we are against it. now What do you want from us?
Don’t have shotgun and shells. See me. See me.
and Drago said I’m going to build a barricade I’m going to put it behind the store. And on that night that they were coming, the men started on Maryland. And at that time, you could see from here all the way to the tanks. You could see all the way there.
LD
It was just fields.
JBM
It was just fields. And daddy said, you could see the flashlights coming. And then they met up. You got players Williams husband out of the field, the John out of the field and you got the heritage And you got the Kellys. They kept marching and the moon was so bright you could read a letter. by and they got to Dragos. They put the barricade up.
And daddy said there wasn’t a light, no where. Nobody at the house. And they said, let us pray and they raised their guns to God. And the prayer was daddy said, God be with us tonight, amen.
LD
That’s all it need to be.
JBM
100 black men.
LD
Real 100 black men.
JBM
And Daddy said you could hear that old car in the gravel, just the motor straining and whining. And the bottles were being broken and loud cussing and they’re going to burn the so and so.
So pinpoints of light. And my dad said, as they got nearer. They got brighter and brighter. When they got to the railroad track, 100 black men threw down and said, Click click.
And Daddy said, that was the only thing you heard. After the click click and the cars turned around
August 14, 2022 @ 6:21 pm
Greetings and thank you, Brother L.D. Azobra, for sharing this very inspiring and empowering portion of your interview with Ms. Julia B. Moore.
She has been one of my most admired “amazons” right up there with Harriet Tubman (formerly Araminta Ross), my white grandmother (who fiercely defended her dark complected offspring from verbal attacks), and my mother (who raised 10 kids to think critically and unbeknown to us, helped to support children from Africa and Haiti).
Julia B. Moore is no-nonsense, eloquent and effective. For decades she devoted her driving energy to providing a place for African American breast cancer survivors to share love, music, tears and valuable experiences in our survival of cancer. We have a freedom of expression in the presence of “Sisters” with like experiences and similar goals. I always left the gatherings of the “Louisiana Coalition of African American Breast Cancer Survivors” energized physically and spiritually.