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Oral history.; Mr. Monroe "Bill" Winston was born September 12, 1907, in Caseyville, Lincoln County, Mississippi. His parents were sharecroppers on the Red Star plantation, the same plantation where his grandmother had been a slave. Mr. Winston attended school through the second grade, stopping to begin work in a brickyard. He worked in the brickyard until he was twenty years old. In 1929, before he turned twenty-two, Mr. Winston married. He and his wife had two sons. After his first wife passed away, Mr. Winston remarried to Gladys Winston. As an adult, Mr. Winston farmed, worked as a mechanic, worked in an oil mill, did odd jobs, and worked as a driver for several people. He continues to live in Brookhaven, in the same house he has lived in since 1926.

Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 14, 1996 with Frances Thornton Smith (born 1916). In 1971, the year that elementary schools were integrated, Smith volunteered to teach at Fair Elementary School, an African-American school in Pascagoula, Mississippi.