Kiplyn Primus and Ralph Baker
Recorded
July 22, 2023
Archived
July 22, 2023
36:52 minutes
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Id:
atl004823
Description
Kiplyn Primus (61) talks with her conversation partner Ralph Baker (71) about his ancestor Jesse Maxwell Barber and the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre.Subject Log / Time Code
Ralph talks about growing up, his childhood, his career and his life.
Ralph talks about his education and background.
Ralph talks about his time at Fisk University, a prominent HBCU.
Ralph discusses his career in pharmaceuticals.
Kiplyn explains the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre.
Ralph details how he learned about his family's involvement in the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre.
Ralph shares what information he knows and remembers about his great uncle Maxwell Barber.
Kiplyn relates back to the Niagara Movement leading to the founding of the NAACP.
Ralph explains more about his great uncle Maxwell Barber and his role publishing information about the Atlanta Race Massacre and the threats he faced.
Ralph talks about the impact that his family history has had on him and how new information has enlightened him.
Ralph talks about sharing this information with his daughters and sharing the documents with them.
Ralph explains that these writings are unpublished papers on the Civil Rights Movement that will be on display at Emory University.
Ralph explains his journey into the field of education and following in his family's footsteps.
Ralph considers how his life would be different if he had known his family's history earlier in life.
Ralph describes his hope to attend future commemorations and the future for his family.
Participants
- Kiplyn Primus
- Ralph Baker