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.