I really think that my parents, in many ways, were ahead of their time…

I really think that my parents, in many ways, were ahead of their time, certainly ahead of the community in which they lived, although they were both expert in adapting to the overall environment in which they lived.

Ellen Black Winston Carolinian

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Oral history interview with Annette Smith, December 2, 1974, Interview G-0064, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

form: interview
work: Oral History Interview with Ellen Black Winston
year: 1974

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