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On Episode 15: 1932 | The Last of the Southern Travelers featuring Mr. Willie J. White details his life growing up in the Jim Crow South. You get to hear the raw story of how his father was killed when he was young, struggling to make ends meet, dropping out of school at the age of 10 to go work in the field picking cotton from sun up to sun down to only make .50 a day. Mr. White talks about meeting his wife at church, working and retiring from Vanity Fair, helping the NAACP organize people in the community to go vote (risking his life), living through the 60’s Civil Rights Movement, the importance of MLK, building his own home for his big family, being apart of a traveling singing group “The Southern Travelers”. In this episode you can see not much has changed since 1932 when Mr. Willie J. White was born and it’s 2020!