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  • “Tell me about Mom.”

    Gregory and Lloyd Porter remember their mother.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “This little white boy said, 'Come, let me see your hands.'”

    Claudette Colvin remembers her childhood in Alabama.

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  • “We would drive into whatever was the closest town and approach the police and ask, 'Where is the colored section?'”

    Patricia Adams tells her friend Louisa Stephens about traveling in the South during segregation.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “I spend more time with Clarice than I do with my own family.”

    Veteran Grand Central Terminal ticket clerk Mike DeMeo to his colleague Clarice Brewer.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “One of the cops said, 'Oh, you think you can do better?'”

    Phyllis Johnson tells her friend Danny Perasa about how she went from Police Department clerk to beat cop.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “Another lady heard me talking, and she came over and said, 'I know this is a God-sent man!”

    Norman White to his son, Nome Poem.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “We were really pioneers. We were the Jackie Robinson of the Air Force.”

    Roscoe Brown, Jr., telling his friend Javier Henriquez about being a Tuskegee Airman.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “We used to go to the Savoy Ballroom every Saturday and stay there until Monday morning.”

    Harold Slappy tells his friend Monica about visiting Harlem's Savoy Ballroom as a youth.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “He looked up at me and said, 'Hamzah,' and then grabbed hold of me and gave me this tight hug and wouldn't let me go.”

    Homeless New Yorker Larry Chamberlain tells his friend Tobias about his many names.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
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