Charles Gratton

Title

Charles Gratton

Description

One example of “the extraordinary resilience of black citizens, who individually and collectively found ways to endure, fight back and occasionally define their own destinies…”

Charles Gratton was born in 1932 and interviewed in 1994 at the age of 62 in Birmingham, AL.

Source

William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad eds., Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (New York: New Press, 2001)

Date

1994

Citation

"Charles Gratton," in Teaching with Laurel Grove School, Item #80, https://chnm.gmu.edu/laurelgrove/items/show/80 (accessed February 1, 2022).