In the early 1990s, dozens of graduate students at Duke University and other schools fanned out across the South to capture and preserve stories of 20th century segregation before the black men and women who survived Jim Crow passed away.
American RadioWorks culled stories from more than 1,000 interviews for this project. ARW producers also conducted extensive field interviews of additional informants. Below are their names.
Wilhelmina Baldwin (b. 1923)
Waynesborough, Mississippi
Leonard Barrow (b. 1917)
New Iberia, Louisiana
George Kenneth Butterfield Jr. (b. 1947)
Wilson, North Carolina
Walter Cavers (b. 1910)
Selma, Alabama
Jesse Chassion (b. 1926)
Freetown, Louisiana
Thomas Christopher Columbus Chatman (b. 1919)
Coffee County, Georgia
Olivia Cherry (b. 1926)
Hampton, Virginia
Price Davis (b. 1921)
Charlotte, North Carolina
Cora Eliza Flemming (b. 1933)
Chapel Hill, Mississippi
Doris and Stine George (b. 1929;1931)
Moultrie, Georgia
Charles Gratton (b. 1932)
Birmingham, Alabama
Edward Kimes
Money Alian Kirby (b. 1914)
Biscoe, Arkansas
Maurice Lucas (b. 1944)
Renova, Mississippi
Cemore Morton Newsome
Otis Pinkard (b. 1916)
Tuskegee, Alabama
Ann Pointer (b. 1927)
Macon County, Alabama
Randolph
Amelia Robinson
Tuskegee, Alabama
Lillian Quick Smith (b. 1931)
Wilmington, NC
Cornelius Speed (b. 1919)
Leon County, Florida
Gladys Stephenson
Della Sullins (b. 1917)
Tuskegee, Alabama
Georgia Sutton (b. 1929)
New Bern, NC
John Harrison Volter (b.1929)
New Iberia, Louisiana
Ferdie Miller Walker (b. 1928)
Fort Worth, Texas
John Welch
Kenneth Young (b. 1907)
Tuskegee, Alabama
