Mansfield African American Oral History Project excerpt discussing slavery

Title: Mansfield African American Oral History Project excerpt discussing slavery
Description: In this excerpt from the Mansfield African American Oral History project unabridged transcript, the interviewer asked about African Americans' beginnings in Mansfield and how their parents settled in the small town. The times of slavery and how sharecropping was done in this Texas town were discussed in the interview. This brings a beginning to the African American story of Mansfield and how it later built to the crisis in 1956. Sam Solimillo in Mansfield conducted the interview. The interviewees mentioned from this excerpt were, Fred Lawson (F.L.) and Maggie Jackson Briscoe (M.B.).
Subject: An excerpt from the Mansfield African American Oral History Project discusses slavery.
Source: Mansfield African American Oral History Project, page 9
Date: 1995-12 (when interviews were conducted)

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