Category: Witness

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.

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

Recorded in Montgomery, AL.

Eric Lamet remembers reuniting with his father in Italy, where Eric and his mother lived as Jewish refugees during WWII.

Recorded in Miami, FL.

Martha Conant (L) tells her daughter-in-law, Brittany, about surviving the crash of United Airlines Flight 232.

Recorded in Greeley, CO.

Leon May, who fought as a Marine in World War II, tells his daughter about leaving for basic training.

Recorded in Detroit, MI.

Korean War POW Wayman Simpson remembers the Korean officer who led the Tiger Death March, a brutal trek that claimed nearly 100 lives.

Recorded in Lawton, OK.

Mweupe Mfalme Nguni remembers his first day at an integrated elementary school in 1965.

Recorded in Oakland, CA.