Thomas Worthy McDonald

The interviewer is Kimberly McDonald DeMott (43 yo), eldest daughter of the interviewee, Thomas Worthy McDonald (74 yo). We discuss his childhood in the Mississippi Delta on a cotton farm.

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Kip Guilbeau and Walter Davis

Friends Dr. Kip Guilbeau (58) and Dr. Walter Davis Sr. (86) discuss Dr. Davis’s book "The Journey of a Sharecropper’s Kid: On a Mission to Forgiveness" and discuss Dr. Davis’s childhood and journey to becoming a pastor and minister.

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Greta Harrelson, Kimberly Exum, and Bobby Harrelson

Sisters Greta Harrelson (53) and Kimberly Exum (55) talk with their father, Bobby Harrelson (84), about his childhood, how he came to be adopted, how he met his wife, his time in the Army, his career in real estate development,...

Growing up in the South: Interview with Joanne Taylor (King) part 1

Joanne talks about growing up in the King family near Danville, KY in the 1940s and 50s. She covers sharecropping, tobacco farming, farm life, valuable lessons, hard work, and good and bad times in the process.

Ms. Terry’s experience with segregation

I met with Mr. Terry at the Oxford Housing Authority on Tuesday November 27 to discuss her life experience through segregation. Ms. Terry was born in 1950 in Lafayette county, in the Yocona area. She spoke of her experience share...

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Ramon Ramos and Melinda Wiggins

Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) executive director Melinda Wiggins (42) talks with her colleague Ramon Zepeda Ramos (26) about their childhoods growing up on farms in Mississippi and Jalisco, Mexico, and why they each work for social justice issues today.