George Berry was born in Oklahoma at White Oak Indian Hills, a Cherokee Indian village. His father was a carpenter and made utilitarian objects (like ax handles) in his spare

Gustina Atlas was born in Claiborne County and has lived there all of her life. Her mother and all of the women in their neighborhood would quilt, but she did

Amoah was born in Ghana, a country on the western coast of Africa. He grew up in the village of Ahwarse and went to grammar school in Accra, Ghana’s capital.

Fred Allsworth was born in 1937 in Purvis, Mississippi. His father was a Methodist minister, and the family followed him as his calling took to jobs all over south Mississippi.

Dewey Alexander was born in Lawrence County in 1924 into a family of farmers. He worked initially running a dragline in quite a few locations, with interruptions for service in