Jesse Edwards- The Southern Migrant by Renardo L. Edwards
Jesse Edwards The Southern Migrant By Renardo Edwards There are people whom are a living history and a bridge from the past to the present and one of those people is our very own Family Patriarch, Jesse Edwards. Jesse is the third child of Cora and Thomas Edwards he was born on December 21 1941 in Potter Station, Alabama. Jesse early childhood was one of a happy child even though he was raised in the Jim Crow south. Family was very important in those days much of one’s socialization and education was formed in a tight knit family village, listening to him reminisce how they all live and work together was something of amazement and wonder. Gone are those days. Jesse has an injured shoulder sadly an injury he had involving my dad and cousin Mary, to think that he fell off a wagon and suffered and injury that bad but he refused to tell his parents to get better medical help, this showed me the toughness this man had even as a little child. 1940’s Alabama was a different time this was...
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