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Civil rights leader and community activist William Saunders was born in 1935 and has resided most of his life in Johns Island, South Carolina. In this interview, Saunders reflects on the economic and cultural changes he has witnessed over the years.…

Lidia Gabriela Ojeda Ruiz (b. 1997) was born in the town of Jerécuaro in Guanajuato, Mexico. She came to the United States in 2006, with her two older brothers to live with her mother and older sister who were already settled in Johns Island, South…

Nurse Lillian Green was born in 1934 in Charleston, South Carolina. She remembers growing up on Short Street where she felt loved and protected by her community. However, her reality was different on her daily walk to Buist School. There, she…

Anne Marie Gilliard (b. 1928) was born in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. Her father was a farmer and her mother a seamstress and washerwoman. Gilliard attended school until the fourth grade and soon after started working with her mother mending and…

Mary Ann Sullivan (b. 1944) was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. She attended the College of Charleston and then the University of Georgia where she graduated with an M.A. in Classics. Sullivan worked as a teacher for a few years and in…

Delia Chariker was born in Kingsville, Texas and she moved to Clover, South Carolina when she was two. Her earliest musical memories relate to her mother’s big playful and musical family. She learned to play guitar when she was in high school. She…

Sound engineer, drummer, and songwriter Jason Mcfarland was born in New York City in 1973. He has lived in the Lowcountry since the 1980s. His earliest music memories are related to Joyce Kilmer Park in the South Bronx, where every Saturday, bands…

Music entrepreneur and philanthropist Eddie White was born in 1960 in Charleston, South Carolina. He attended Wando High School and later Furman University where he obtained a degree in dentistry, a profession he has practiced for more than thirty…

Guitarist and entrepreneur Clelia Hand Reardon was born in Huntsville, Alabama. She recalls her beginnings: taking piano lessons when she was in first grade and knowing when she was only thirteen that she wanted to be a classical guitarist. Reardon…

Saxophonist Abe White was born in downtown Charleston in 1935. He attended Burke High and there he realized he could be a musician. Soon, with almost no training, he started playing at the local bars on Reynolds Avenue in North Charleston and in…