Marcus and Alma Lyons slides: "Grandmother Made 100 Years Old": Grace Butler Carter is in the center, left to right is Marcus Lyons, Bessie Carter, "Mama Lou," Martha Smith, Althea Lyon and Leahlette Lyons, 1958 January 01
Marcus and Alma Lyons slides: "Grandmother Made 100 Years Old": Grace Butler Carter is in the center, left to right is Marcus Lyons, Bessie Carter, "Mama Lou," Martha Smith, Althea Lyon and Leahlette Lyons, 1958 January 01
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Interviews, photographs, and oral history project files chronicling African-American life in the American South with a particular focus on the era of legal segregation and its...