StoryCorps Atlanta's Kiplyn Primus sits down with labor lawyer Brent Wilson to recount his childhood in New Orleans and what he thought of Atlanta during his time at Morehouse College.
Karen Marie Mason of Atlanta lived with breast cancer for over a decade before the disease took her life. Listen now as she explains to her friend Kiplyn Primus why she chose to chart her own path with the disease.
It was scary in 1961, for the 3 young men set to become Georgia Tech’s first Black students. And it was scary in 2020, for Marcus and Justin, who were accepted to Georgia Tech’s Executive MBA program during the COVID-19 pandemic. Marcus asks Justin about that first day.
Dr. Dale Strasser has treated many polio survivors over the year, including Shirley Duhart-Green. Strasser asks her to talk about some of her experiences having survived polio from the age of two and a half.
In the 1960s, Betty Swims was a young widow with four children to support. It wasn’t easy, and she didn’t always know where or how she’d get the money. She tells her son Roger about it.
