Category: Struggle

“The next day, the police car pulled up and they said, 'We're taking y'all to jail.'”

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James Hanover Thompson (L) tells his brother Dwight (R) about his involvement in the "Kissing Case" of 1958. Read more…

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Recorded in Wilmington, NC.

“I wasn't like other kids.”

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Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda (R) talks to his high school economics teacher, Alex Fernandez (L), about growing up poor in Chicago. Read more…

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Recorded in Madison, WI.

“The doctor told my parents that I was hopelessly insane.”

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Jon Brock tells his daughter Glenny Brock about being committed to Bryce Hospital, Alabama's oldest psychiatric facility, in 1965.

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Recorded in Birmingham, AL.

“He was so busy that he would schedule surgeries for three and four in the morning.”

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Linda Kenney (R) Miller and her sister Diane Kenney (L) remember their grandfather, Dr. John A. Kenney, who founded the first hospital for African Americans in Newark, NJ.

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Recorded in Montgomery, AL.

“The guy that was interviewing told me I was too little.”

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Dee Dickson remembers trying to get a job as a shipyard electrician in the 1970s.

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Recorded in Biloxi, MS.

“You don't have to be dirty to be poor.”

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94-year-old Mary Van Beke tells her son, Charles, about growing up in the 1920s.

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Recorded in Knoxville, TN.

“My dad had a fair amount of self-confidence and bravado.”

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Erin Ryan remembers her father, Congressman Leo Ryan, who was assassinated in 1978 while on a fact-finding mission to Jonestown, Guyana.

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Recorded in Washington, D.C.

“The only way that I could see out of that situation was to take my life.”

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Rob Littlefield remembers being bullied in junior high school for being gay.

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Recorded in Oklahoma City, OK.

“I can remember things that occur in my heart much better than things that occur in my head.”

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Robert Patterson, who has Alzheimer's disease, speaks with his wife, Karen.

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Recorded in Los Angeles, CA.

“I was focusing on him coming home.”

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Jean Braca talks with her son David about losing her husband, Alfred Braca, on September 11, 2001.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

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