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Aunt Helen
Alabama, and somewhere "up North"
On a long country walk with my visiting Aunt
1920s
Origins: Northwest Alamama
Illicit Love Lost
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Cousin
Hushpuckena, MS
Family history
1920s
Koscuisko, MS
Paternal Grandparents
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My grandmother and my great uncle Alfred Wilson
Mississippi
This story was often told at family events.
1920s
Mississippi
My great uncle Alfred Wilson's Escape to The North
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My Mother
Arkansas
Just a regular conversation.
1920s
Macnab, Arkansas
overcoming extreme poverty.
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My mother, grandmother, and great uncle
Napoleonville, Louisiana
Oral history from an eyewitness
1920s
Napoleonville and New Orleans, Louisiana
False accusations and lynching
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