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"I think I had the greatest mom in the world."

Wanda Zoeller (L) remembers her mother with her partner, Susan Herndon.

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Recorded in Louisville, KY

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"It sounds like you were the black sheep."

Carly Dreher interviews her grandfather Lyle Link, who is 90, about growing up on his family’s farm.

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Recorded in Milwaukee, WI

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"Why are you not still married?"

10-year-old Rahsheed McKenstry interviews his mother, Rhonetta.

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Recorded in Memphis, TN

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"I just tried to stay in the background…"

Joe Buford tells his literacy tutor, Michelle Miller, about what it was like not knowing how to read.

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Recorded in Nashville, TN

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"We wanted to be treated as men."

Elmore Nickelberry and Taylor Rogers remember why they went on strike as Memphis sanitation workers in 1968.

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Recorded in Memphis, TN.  Click here for more stories from the strike.

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"He really talked that night."

Retired Memphis sanitation worker Taylor Rogers and his wife, Bessie, remember Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech.

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Recorded in Memphis, TN

 

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"I couldn’t understand why all the black men had signs that said ‘I AM A MAN.’"

Reverend George Turks, Jr. remembers witnessing the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike as a teenager. Click here to see a photo from the strike.

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Recorded in Memphis, TN

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"A policeman was coming down the street…"

Ella Owens (L) tells her daughter, Lynn Reed, about participating in a march during the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike.

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Recorded in Memphis, TN

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"When Dr. King was assassinated, I was on the air."

Herb Kneeland (L) tells his son Martavius Jones about being a disc jockey at WDIA in Memphis on April 4, 1968.

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Recorded in Memphis, TN

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"The bulletin came across the TV…"

Kathy Dean Evans remembers the night Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

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Recorded in Memphis, TN

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