Sheila + Sharon | Pain & Promise | American Experience | PBS

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Audio produced by StoryCorps Studios in partnership with GBH Boston.

In this recording, twin sisters Sheila Conway and Sharon Malone tell their stories as part of the first group of children to integrate Memphis schools: “the Memphis 13”. Sheila remembers being shunned by white students, the horrendous cruelty of her teacher, and having racial slurs thrown at her. Sharon recalls the inequality of the schools, and the collective forgetting that the city of Memphis seems to have regarding the ordeal.

Audio recorded on May 18, 2023 at NPT in Nashville

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