Kelly Finley and Karlos Finley
Recorded
November 8, 2023
Archived
November 8, 2023
38:21 minutes
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Id:
mby023277
Description
Kelly Finley [no age given] interviews her husband, Karlos Finley (59), about his family's history in Mobile, Alabama, their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, and what he has learned from them. (Content warning: mention of rape and sexual assault)Subject Log / Time Code
Kelly Finley (KEF) gives a bit of backstory on her and Karlos Finley's (KF) history with previous StoryCorps recordings.
KEF asks KF about his family history.
KEY asks KF to describe how his parents met.
KF shares about his mother's history as a schoolteacher.
KEF asks if KF sees his parents' traits in himself.
KF talks about his parents' upbringing during the Great Depression.
KEF asks if people tried to keep KF's parents apart because of their different upbringings and family backgrounds.
KF discusses the teamwork between his parents while they were both educators and helping one another pursue their educations.
KF shares his parents' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
KF talks about his father's music production company.
KF describes his mother and sister's arrests during the Civil Rights Movement.
KF talks about white music promoters pressing charges against his father.
KF shares about his father's experience as a physician, his article in Ebony Magazine, and how he ended up as a physician in the Africatown community.
KF connects his family's history to the present-day community in Africatown.
KEF asks KF what legacy he hopes to leave behind.
KEF asks what KF's parents would say to him now.
Participants
- Kelly Finley
- Karlos Finley