ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an interview of Austry Kirklin. She attended the Little Red Schoolhouse that was set up by the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War. Kirklin has picked cotton on a plantation almost half her life, beginning at the age of twelve. Three different cultures—Indian, African, and white—flow together to make up her bloodlines. Her mother was half Indian and half African. Her daddy was a mixture of African and white. Her grandmother was a full-blooded Indian. Kirklin has a lot of courage, but she also has sense. Kirklin volunteered at the Rural Organizing and Cultural Center, helping to run the used-clothing store.
