91-year-old Donald Huffman talks about surviving the Bath School disaster of 1927. For images from the disaster, click here.
Recorded in Cedar Springs, MI.
Category: Growing Up
“We had to do a good deed every day...”
John Hope Franklin, the late scholar of African American history, tells his son, John, about being a Boy Scout during the 1920s.
Recorded in Tulsa, OK, in partnership with National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).
“Everywhere we went my mother would make sure that they enrolled us in school.”
Lourdes Villanueva tells her son Roger about growing up in a family of migrant workers.
Recorded in Tampa, FL, in partnership with Redlands Christian Migrant Association.
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“As long as there was one black child left in town, they had to keep the school open.”
Reverend James Seawood remembers how African-American families were forced out of Sheridan, Arkansas, when the schools attempted to integrate.
Recorded in Staten Island, NY, in partnership with the Sandy Ground Historical Society.
“School was out for two weeks and all the telephone lines were down.”
Dr. Jim Fleming tells his daughter, Janetta, about being trapped indoors by the Great Ice Storm of 1951.
Recorded in Nashville, TN.
