Category: Griot

Joe Buford tells his literacy tutor, Michelle Miller, about what it was like not knowing how to read.

Recorded in Nashville, TN.

Elmore Nickelberry and Taylor Rogers remember why they went on strike as Memphis sanitation workers in 1968.

Recorded in Memphis, TN.

Retired Memphis sanitation worker Taylor Rogers and his wife, Bessie, remember Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech.

Recorded in Memphis, TN. Click here for more stories from the strike.

Reverend George Turks, Jr. remembers witnessing the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike as a teenager. Click here to see a photo from the strike.

Recorded in Memphis, TN. Click here for more stories from the strike.

Ella Owens (L) tells her daughter, Lynn Reed, about participating in a march during the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike.

Recorded in Memphis, TN. Click here for more stories from the strike.

Herb Kneeland (L) tells his son Martavius Jones about being a disc jockey at WDIA in Memphis on April 4, 1968.

Recorded in Memphis, TN.

Kathy Dean Evans remembers the night Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

Recorded in Memphis, TN.

10-year-old Rahsheed McKenstry interviews his mother, Rhonetta.

Recorded in Memphis, TN.

Mary Ellen Noone remembers a story from her great-grandmother.

Recorded in Montgomery, AL.

Celedonia "Cal" Jones (L) tells his friend Robert Harris about moving to a new block in Harlem during the Depression.

Recorded in New York, NY.