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Interview with storyteller Cecil Gunter

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Sound

Date:

Dec 1976

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Audio recording

Container:

1

Series:

S1576

Item ID:

C77-13

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  • One audio cassette. From Caladonia, Mississippi. Gunter talked about how he once outran the Highway Patrol; told a story an old man thought to be crazy in their neighborhood; spoke about white woman who raised him when he was young; described the near-enslavement she endured as a child; and spoke of segregation in the South and race relations in the North.

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