Sadie Duke remembers the day when Ruth's sister, Violet Freeman, went home with her after school.

"After we got though eating, we went down to the church to get some water because we had an open well. Moma didn't like for us to drink that water, so we went to get some water to take back to the house."

While getting water, the girls also started to play around the church.

"This black boy came down there, pushing a tricycle. He came up to us and he wanted to know what we were doing down there. I said, 'we came to get some water, and we just got to playing down here," she recalled.