Lives lived in telling
Oral history gathers important material that might otherwise be lost forever. Not everyone can write, but with a keen and devoted listener and recorder, even those who might not write can weave a life story that has value for others—for their families and friends, their descendants, and a wider audience for first-hand history.
To Be A Man: Johnnie Wilson, Jr.
by Susan Gluck Rothenberg—
“
Johnnie Wilson's oral history,
lovingly assembled by Susan Rothenberg, provides windows into large segments of American life
seldom so carefully recaptured: rural black America, baseball, the waterfront and, above all, family life in
the early twentieth century. Wilson was an 'ordinary' decent, fascinating citizen whose story I found simply
extraordinary.”
Fay Vincent, former commissioner, Major League Baseball
XOXOX Press 2004
ISBN 1-880977-12-5
112 pages, soft cover,
7 by 8.5 inches
