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Interviewee | Collection Sort descending | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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Robert Thorpe | Georgia Black Fishermen |
On August 28, 2014, Dr. |
Jolvan Morris | Townsend, GA | NOAA, Savannah State University | |
Cassie Williams | Georgia Black Fishermen |
On June 15, 2010, Dionne Hoskins and Money Murphy interviewed Cassie Williams as part of the Georgia Black Fishermen oral history collection. Cassie, a native of Thunderbolt, Georgia—a small community five miles southeast of Savannah in Chatham County, was born in 1934 and was the youngest of eight children. After completing six years of school in Savannah, she traveled to New York to finish her education, but had to return before graduation to take care of her father. |
Dionne Hoskins, Money Murphy | Thunderbolt, GA | NOAA, Savannah State University | |
Cornelia Walker Bailey | Georgia Black Fishermen |
On August 27, 2009, Dr. |
Dionne Hoskins | Sapelo Island, GA | NOAA, Savannah State University | |
Rebecca "Miss Sula" Bowen | Georgia Black Fishermen |
On June 15, 2011 Dionne Hoskins interviewed Rebecca Bonds Bowen, better known as “Miss Sula,” as part of the Georgia Black Fishermen oral history project. Miss Sula was born in 1946 in Pin Point, Georgia—a small Gullah Geechee community founded in 1896, eleven miles southeast of Savannah, in Chatham County. Growing up, Miss Sula was often the primary caregiver for her younger siblings because her parents would leave early in the morning to either catch or pick crabs. |
Dionne Hoskins | Savannah, GA | NOAA, Savannah State University | |
Leroy Beavers | Georgia Black Fishermen |
On July 15, 2010 Monet Murphy interviewed Leroy Beavers as part of the Georgia Black Fishermen oral history project. Leroy grew up in a fishing family in McIntosh County in Sherman Bluff, Georgia — 30 miles south of Savannah. His love for fishing, imparted by his grandfather, deepened as he grew older. He fished often while stationed in various locations during his 20 years of military service. Fishing taught him patience, which he incorporated into all aspects of his life. After leaving the military, Leroy began working in his father’s barbersh |
Dionne Hoskins | Sapelo Island, GA | NOAA, Savannah State University | |
Stephanie Anderson | Georgia Black Fishermen |
On November 2, 2015, Dr. Dionne Hoskins interviewed Stephanie Anderson as part of the Georgia Black Fishermen oral history project. Stephanie Anderson grew up with a large, close-knit, extended family in Pin Point, Georgia—a small Gullah Geechee community founded in 1896. |
Dionne Hoskins | Pin Point, GA | NOAA, Savannah State University | |
Primus Butler | Georgia Black Fishermen |
On July 17, 2012, Dr. |
Jolvan Morris | Thunderbolt, GA | NOAA, Savannah State University | |
Kenneth Dunham | Georgia Black Fishermen |
On August 14, 2014, Dr. Jolvan Morris interviewed Kenneth Dunham as part of the Georgia Black Fishermen oral history project. Kenneth Dunham describes his early life in the rural coastal Georgia community of Harris Neck. Kenneth recalls his father's role in the community as a boat builder, and how lessons in woodwork, carpentry, and boat building have been passed for generations. Kenneth talks about (and demonstrates) how nets and "trap lines" are made, as well as recounts how the different fishes, crabs, and terrapins were caught in this homemade gear. He |
Jolvan Morris | Townsend, GA | NOAA, Savannah State University | |
Lucy Grant | Georgia Black Fishermen |
On July 14, 2010, Dr. Jolvan Morris interviewed Lucy Grant as part of the Georgia Black Fishermen oral history project. Lucy Grant was born in 1930 in the small coastal community of Sherman Bluff, Georgia in McIntosh County—30 miles south of Savannah. Fishing was essential in her family and community and throughout her married life. Her husband was a shrimp boat captain and they had three children. However, the family connection to fishing did not extend to her two sons, who hated fishing and chose to enter the military instead. |
Jolvan Morris | Shellman Bluff, GA | NOAA, Savannah State University | |
Charles Hall | Georgia Black Fishermen |
On October 17, 2009, Dionne Hoskins interviewed Charles Hall as part of the Georgia Black Fisherman oral history project. Charles was born in 1934 on Sapelo Island, Georgia—a small Gullah Geechee community founded on the fourth largest barrier island in the 1700s, 60 miles south of Savannah, in McIntosh County. Charles earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Morehouse College in Georgia and Physical Therapy certification from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. |
Dionne Hoskins | Sapelo Island, GA | NOAA, Savannah State University |