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    GRB000611
    Akiba Shabazz, Naja Shabazz, and Zuri Shabazz
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    Akiba Shabazz, Naja Shabazz, and Zuri Shabazz
    Brianna Hyneman
    November 23, 2007 Griot Booth

    Akiba Shabazz talks with her daughters Naja and Zuri about her life growing up with her parents in Memphis, her marriages and travels.

    • birth of first child
    • college
    • colon cancer
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • France
    • Influential People
    • Italy
    • memories of growing up
    • Muslim
    • Nightclubs
    • novels
    • personal experiences
    • racist killing
    MBX005185
    Bernard Scott Rush and Nicole Rush Free
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    Bernard Scott Rush and Nicole Rush Free
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    April 18, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Bernard Scott Rush, 68, by his daughter, Nicole Rush (Maat Free), 35, about growing up in Mississippi then moving to New York City.

    • African heritage
    • Ancestors
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Choktaw words
    • Cotton gin
    • Cotton picking
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Emmett Till
    • family expressions
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • Harlem, NY
    • Lynching
    MBX007481
    Kristin Tubre and Kimberly Tubre
    42:01
    Kristin Tubre and Kimberly Tubre
    Marquita James
    December 4, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Kristin Tubre (28) talks to sister Kimberly Tubre (24) about their childhoods, their parents’ divorce, and being from New Orleans.

    • Alabama
    • alcoholics
    • apology
    • author
    • Baby sister
    • Barbie
    • Big sister
    • crib
    • Curfew
    • Daddy
    • drunks
    • expectations
    • family naming and nicknames
    • FEMA relief
    • FEMA trailer
    ATD000339
    Debra Taylor and Eric Taylor
    01:17:04
    Debra Taylor and Eric Taylor
    Amanda Plumb
    April 12, 2011 Atlanta Door-To-Door

    Debra Taylor (59) tell her son Eric Taylor (28)

    • Algiers, New Orleans
    • Althea Joseph White
    • Bauder Fashion College
    • Carnival
    • Charis Books and More
    • davis
    • Ellenwood, GA
    • family feuds
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • George
    • housewife
    MBY004635
    Curtis Williams and Mechelle Brown
    35:14
    Curtis Williams and Mechelle Brown
    Alex Kelly
    October 24, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Mechelle Brown and her son Curtis Williams about what it was like for Mechelle to be the younger parent of 3 children and words of wisdom she wants to pass on.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • Crying
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Fighting
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • Mother
    • North Tulsa
    • Parenting
    • personal experiences
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    • Presents
    • religious beliefs and practices
    GRS000859
    Gwendolyn Henderson and Shirley Baxter
    47:25
    Gwendolyn Henderson and Shirley Baxter
    Michael Premo
    January 26, 2008 Griot Site-Based

    Gwendolyn Henderson remembers her life in Tuskegee

    • Appearance
    • Civil Rights
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • College life
    • college town
    • color
    • color politics
    • community worthies
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • historical events/people
    • Influential People
    • John Kinny
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    MBX004521
    Moses McCrimager and Steven Blay
    01:21:17
    Moses McCrimager and Steven Blay
    Nina Porzucki
    October 29, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Moses McCrimager, 91, is interviewed by his friend Steven Blay, 35.

    • 10 horse farm
    • 1926 Hurricane in Miami
    • 1936 Chevrolet
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • apprenticeships
    • Brooksfield, FL
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Gainesville, FL
    • halfcropper
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • mining
    MBX004119
    Georgie Walker and Sonia  Walker
    01:08:20
    Georgie Walker and Sonia Walker
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    July 26, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Georgie talks with her daughter Sonia Walker about growing up in Buffalo, the illnesses Georgia has suffered and the strength and perseverance they have learned as family.

    • 1943
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • Buffalo, NY
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Fort Benning, GA
    • gall bladder
    • heart trouble
    • historical events/people
    • Lutheran
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • political beliefs and practices
    sck001809
    William Brown and Janice Fields
    00:00
    William Brown and Janice Fields
    November 5, 2009 StoryKit

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family naming and nicknames
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • Prejudice
    • schoolyard games
    • social beliefs and practices
    MBY006012
    George Hebert and George Hebert
    29:39
    George Hebert and George Hebert
    whenry-lester
    December 1, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    George II interviews his father George I about his life, military service, happiness, beliefs, struggles.

    • African American
    • bible
    • Black American
    • Church
    • Civil Rights
    • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Edna, TX
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • father
    • GI Bill
    • Houston, TX
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • MLK
    DDB000925
    Andre Walker and Peter Wilson
    40:58
    Andre Walker and Peter Wilson
    Matt Herman
    June 3, 2011 Door-to-Door Kit B

    Andre Walker (25) talks to Peter Wilson (68) about the genealogical research that has led him to learn a lot about his family history.

    • ancestry.com
    • Diversity
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trees
    • Minneapolis, MN
    • Newellton, LA
    • Stonewall Baptist Church (MN)
    • Summer Camp
    MBX006503
    Larnell Bates and Lynette Bates
    41:34
    Larnell Bates and Lynette Bates
    Jeremy Helton
    March 28, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Lynette D. Bates (47) talks with her brother Larnell Bates, Jr. (51) about family, parenting and good teachers.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Angela
    • Appearance
    • Arthur McCastle
    • Aunt Snowball
    • birth of first child
    • breast cancer
    • Brianna
    • Brother Martin
    • Chicago
    • Coach Markham
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • discipline
    • Eleanor McMain
    • family naming and nicknames
    GRB000245
    Ralph Walker and Jason Walker
    39:43
    Ralph Walker and Jason Walker
    John White
    June 10, 2007 Griot Booth

    Jason Walker interviews his father about his life in the military.

    • birth of first child
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Electrical engineering
    • family naming and nicknames
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Spouse
    • Washington, DC
    atl000710
    Lauren Jefferson, William Mayweather, and Tonya Groomes
    01:19:39
    Lauren Jefferson, William Mayweather, and Tonya Groomes
    ldobson
    February 5, 2011 Atlanta StoryBooth

    William (Bill) Mayweather (71) and his granddaughter Lauren Jefferson (15) are interviewed by their daughter/mother, Tonya Groomes (45) about a member of their family being part of the Pulitzer Prize winning book “Slavery By Another Name.”

    • college
    • family characters
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Green Cottingham
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Montevallo, Alabama
    • personal experiences
    • Prejudice
    • Skip Cottingham
    • Slavery By Another Name
    • social beliefs and practices
    MPL000520
    Charlene Robinson and Sonja Scott Woods
    49:38
    Charlene Robinson and Sonja Scott Woods
    Becky Homann
    January 12, 2008 Milwaukee Public Library

    Charlene Robinson and her niece, Sonja Scott Woods discuss their family history.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of growing up
    • Mother’s Day
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Slave Narratives recordings
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    MBX005893
    Djibril Cisse, Oulimata Sylla, and Patricia Carlin
    31:17
    Djibril Cisse, Oulimata Sylla, and Patricia Carlin
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    October 4, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Oulimata Sylla, Djibril Cisse, and Patricia Carlin, talk about Ouli’s recent arrival from Senegal to finally be reunited with her husband.

    • Africa
    • Celebrations
    • Chicago
    • Christian
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Cooperation
    • English
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Green card
    • Homework
    • Immigrants
    • immigration
    • Kalamazoo
    • lottery visa
    • Muslim
    GCT004494
    Horace G. Nelson, Carol Nelson, and Tricia Nelson
    42:53
    Horace G. Nelson, Carol Nelson, and Tricia Nelson
    Michelle Swinehart
    November 23, 2007 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Tricia Nelson interviews her parents, Horace and Carol Nelson about their decision to marry and immigrate to the United States at a very young age.

    • birth of first child
    • college
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family expressions
    • family heroes
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • Guyana, South America
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • Richard Nixon
    • Sagittarius
    GRB000832
    Emma Lou Dailey and Claire Stallworth
    01:30:41
    Emma Lou Dailey and Claire Stallworth
    Naomi Greene
    February 1, 2008 Griot Booth

    Claire interviews Emma Lou about growing up in Chestnut, Alabama. Emma Lou remembers from childhood about her mother, great-grandmother and her brother, Jim.

    • Amazing Grace
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Blind Man Savage
    • Chestnut, Alabama
    • Childhood Games
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Jeffery Montgomery
    • Jim Montgomery
    • Lucinda Montgomery Stallworth
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Out house

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