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March 20, 2018
Fields of Fearlessness
Stories about Fields vary from source to source, but the most common theme is of her brazen, bold, and daring personality. There is no question she was a strong African American woman in a time when being a woman alone was stifling and offered few options.
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September 19, 2017
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Rather than being untold stories, however, for many these are stories well known. Stories of individuals such as my grandfather, James Nidey, who today at age 96 still lives on the same section of land where, as a young man, he endured the 1930s in the epicenter of the Dust Bowl:
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Categorized In: Dickinson Research Center, Voices from the West
Categorized In: Dickinson Research Center, Voices from the West
Categorized In: Dickinson Research Center, Voices from the West
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