Tyrone Ash and Kiplyn Primus
Recorded
March 1, 2016
45:35 minutes
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Id:
atl003247
Description
Tyrone Ash (65) tells his new friend Kiplyn Primus (54) about his family's legacy, from an ancestor who escaped from a slave ship to eleven high-achieving Black siblings making a name for themselves during desegregation.Subject Log / Time Code
Tyrone talks about the way desegregation and Brown v. Board of Education shaped his childhood and adolescence.
Tyrone talks about his parents (Solomon and Lillian), the way they raised their children to be studious and responsible, and their decision to move from the Bahamas to the U.S. with five kids and one on the way.
Tyrone recounts the story his aunt told him about his great-great-grandfather, Timothy Ash: after being captured in the Congo and brought to the Bahamas on a slave ship, he burned off his chains, jumped overboard, swam to shore, and began life as a freeman.
Tyrone recalls how people would say, "Y'all's family's so good, if you could bottle up what y'all got, you'd be millionaires." Tyrone talks about pride in their family legacy.
Tyrone shares a brief description of each of his ten siblings in birth order. (Rudolph, Anthony, Helena, Phillip, [Tyrone,] Michael, Christine, Timothy, Angela, Ted, and Douglas)
Tyrone talks about his mother, how she maintained authority over all eleven children.
Tyrone on the link between self-knowledge/self-history and success.
Participants
- Tyrone Ash
- Kiplyn Primus