On June 16, 2010 Monet Murphy interviewed Annie Lee Thorpe as part of the Georgia Black Fishermen oral history project. Annie was the seventh of eight children, born in 1923 in Mayport, Florida. She recalls that her family structure changed when she was 12, after the death of her mother. She then moved to Savannah to live with her older sister; however, she was unable to complete her primary education due to her sister’s illness. Soon after, Annie married James Joseph “Joe” Thorpe, one of the few African American shrimp boat captains in Savannah.

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.

In 2010, Dr. Jolvan Morris interviewed Charles Murray for the Georgia Black Fishermen oral history project. One of 10 children, Charles grew up in Savannah, Georgia surrounded by a fishing community his entire life. He learned the trade, which he found easy, from his father who was a commercial shrimper and was the first African American in Thunderbolt to own his own boat. Coastal Georgia was the epicenter for shrimping and was where he, his father, and two brothers made their living.

On July 17, 2012, Dr.