Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings

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Document Type

Oral History

Publication Date

7-28-2015

Abstract

Ratibu Jacocks interviews three people regarding their extensive family history. The first is his wife Wilmer Amina Carter, her cousin Jacqueline Carter, and a relative by the name of Shirley Culberson Barrett. Through enthusiastic and often overlapping conversations, the three women discuss their family history. Prominently through the use of a family photo album and recollections, the interviewees discuss church, family lineage, memories of those passed, and the issues with organizing contemporary family reunions. With faith, Wilmer and Jacqueline discuss the church revival events, food, and being saved through baptisms. They also discuss the family tree and how Wilmer’s mother had been raised by her aunt, of which the latter sees as her actual mother. When later Barrett joins the interview, the topic again covers faith. Particularly, the topic of the Mount Talley church and the location and how the Carters, Sledges, and Moors families were important in its history. After discussing more family members, the three women go over the topic of family reunions. At the time of the recording, they have been less common for the families. Both high prices and lack of keeping in contact between the younger family members has hindered such reunions from being organized. The interview ends with the women’s family ties to the Great Migration and the need to preserve family history.

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