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My grandmother, my maternal grandmother, she grew up in Waxaw, North Carolina and she grew up on a farm.

So she had a big family, she had like almost 10 siblings and they were

shirtcroppers so they actually lived and worked on a white family's farm and

she used to tell me about her schooling like she went to what was called a shotgun school,

or she called a shotgun school,

so it was like a little shack, you know,

raggedy shack, and they didn't even have chairs and desks.

But she enjoyed school.

And when my grandmother was in sixth grade,

she had to drop out of school because her father died.

Her mother was left with all these kids. She had to raise on her own and so she dropped out of school to pick cotton and help on the farm. I mean there's a lot of painful experiences that she had growing up

just being really poor and but despite all of that you know she maintain a level of

like appreciation for what she had I mean I can't imagine growing up in the

the 30s in the South as a black person period and especially a black woman to be able to go through the things that she went through,

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