"Our house was integration inside, segregation outside"

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StoryCorps

Aurelia Chestang grew up in Mobile, Alabama in the 1940s. She sat down with StoryCorps to tell her daughter, Yvette, about her grandparents - the challenges they faced during a deeply, segregated era and how they overcame strict, racial boundaries by hosting elaborate parties...  

Edited by Anastasiya Titarenko  

     

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Brittany Young is Alabama Public Radio's Program Director and Content Manager. Brittany began her public radio journey in the spring of 2015 as a news intern for APR while in graduate school at The University of Alabama.