I Am TISH BISH You have amazing family love thank God we got to hear your auntie life story. May God bless her beautiful soul 🙏🏽 Rest In Love Ms. Lou Mae Willingham ❤️❤️
WE ARE LAZY! Hell, I am, compared to this GREAT LADY. YOU have to remember that this was when BLACK people had PRIDE and RESPECT and LOVE for EACH OTHER! My my, how times have CHANGED! It SEEMS like the better it gets for us, the WORSE we want to act and treat each other. NOT ALL OF US, but let's be HONEST,MOST of our (black people) problems come from WITHIN, yet we are so quick to BLAME ANYBODY BUT OURSELVES! I LOVE LOVE LOVE my ancestors and all that they went through for US to be better. Look around the BLACK neighborhoods and see what is going on...SHAMEFUL.
This brought me goosebumps all over. To hear the voice of my ancestor speak of her life, unbroken, respectfully, strong and full of dignity. I love your heart and thank you dear sister.
I don't know why people say they can't understand her. then again, I grew up in the south and in a predominantly black neighborhood. to me, she sounded like the grannies of my friends when i would go play at their house as a child. I understood her just fine. Bless her heart, she had it rough! It brought tears to my eyes to hear how proud she was that she was the best at what she did. There's a lesson there. No matter how hard the work or how unpleasant, you can always keep your dignity if you find something in which to take honest pride as in the case of a job well done. Wish she'd had a chance to realize her intellectual potential. No telling what she could've become if she'd had the chance with an attitude like that.
Yes, I commented on here. My husband and his family grew up as sharecroppers. They were very proud ppl. Anything they did in life was done right, clean and in order.
Tears, Makes me think about my mom. She was the youngest, slowest cotton picker, her sister help her, when she became ill. Her hands changed, contoured, Every time I looked at her hands, I thought of that cotton, They sacrificed so much, Yet our younger generation has no clue, My mom is gone now, This video really touched my heart, Thank you for sharing.
I"m in Ms. My great grandma doesn't speak on these things but i found out in high school that she couldn't read or write. I'm proud of her because i found out she went and found a place that taught her so she could write on my graduation card herself this time. They are precious. Love you great grandma.
I'm from Louisiana. My great grandmother picked cotton and was a slave. I was able to speak to her AND care for her in her old age. I was able to get a job at the nursing home she was at and never told anyone I was her great-granddaughter so I could watch how they treated her. I used to sing to her in her room. I eventually revealed who I was after abuse was reportedly being used on her. I remember she told me how it hurt her fingers to pick it when she first started as a little girl then she said her fingers got used to the pricking. I never knew what she meant my that...I never knew cotton had thorns or thistles.....I miss her. This woman just gave us rich history. Bless her and bless you for sharing.
I wonder how it feels for white people to see this. I wonder what type of opinion they have after women like this and your grandmothers history. It saddens me.....deeply.....wicked devils will pay......you know the reason that devil said to the other people "cant nobody beat Lula Mae" that was his demonic actions at higher production....he wanted to make a game of it....sorta what they do now
And thank you for sharing. I'm so grateful you took care of her under a guise. Those heathen devils treat all of our kind that way. I pray for them often
@@dahriyannoshalet9579 My Mother Name is LULA MAE Rose. We are from Glendora Miss. We moved to Memphis in 1956 My Mom is still alive. She's 102 yrs. Old.
@@loreneroberson5173 Wow! God bless you and your mother's heart I would love to hear the many stories about her life. You all are truly blessed to have her still with you all. May God continue to keep her for 102 more years 🙏🏾 Much love and peace from Wilmington Delaware
Say it Loud. I was there an it ended for me when I was 14yrs old. I will give you the year. Send me your email. No baby, No checks Cash an carry. They had so much came. We never peeped a lot of it until later years to come.
I rather listen to the stories of the elders of my people than watch TV. To hear the stories of strength, determination, humility endurance makes me feel truly blessed of my heritage 💯❤️ 🙏🏽
God Bless .... all of our ancestors, they have surely come a long way. we wouldn't have the opportunities we have now, if it wasn't for them and their sacrifices. I LOVE YOU ALL !!! .Thank You ....
Access Denied Black history in this country we live in began with slavery and we have come a long way in this country. We don’t know our history from Africa other than our ancestors were captured by other Africans and put in chains and marched to the sea where white men paid them whatever the going rate was and loaded my ancestors on a boat and dropped them off in the Caribbean and North America were they were forced into slave labor.
Thank you for uploading this beautiful video of Ms. Lou Mae Wilham. This is history, living history that needs to be archived and studied, never forgotten. I appreciate your effort.
Just spending time with her was a gift. If I was her great granddaughter I wouldnt never ask her for nothing in the world..just a hug and just listen to her. She is a earth angel that endured evil with a pure heart. I'm sure she met sweet jesus and he had open arms for her.
My grandmother was born in Glendora in 1914. She has since passed but my mom was telling me some family stories. My mom's family were sharecroppers and she said she started in the field at 8 years old. l found this video and my mom could definitely relate! This beautiful, wonderful woman is my family although we aren't related by blood. I have great aunts that looked just like her. :) l absolutely love my people! We are strong and we know how to survive. It may not seem like it based on our history, but we are blessed. I don't understand it all...the why's and all, but thank God he has covered us and kept us and continues to do so. :)
Im thankful i had it much easier and i celebrate all my elders who paved the way for me. they weren't just hardworking they were intelligent strong people. And i love to hear their wisdom.
I bet she is full of history. She sounds like she has a warm heart. Cherish her because time is so short, just ask those of us who have lost their grandparents.
I could listen to her for hours and hours- what history! She reminds me of my great- grandmother and her relatives and friends from when I was a little girl.
My Lord she reminds me of my grandmother and my great grandmother. Worked picking cotton from the age of 8 or 9, then in the chicken plants when they married in their teens. My great grandmother's father was white/Cherokee mixed blood, so they were sharecroppers. I remember them telling me stories about picking cotton "from can to cain't", until their fingers bled, and then getting into trouble for getting blood on the cotton. Stories of gutting chickens hanging overhead on the production line, and my tiny grandmother going home with blisters down her arms and sides from the hot blood and bile that poured down them during her 12 hour shift. My prayer is that we all become worthy of the sacrifices women like these made before us. What a wonderful lady in this video. I understand that she has passed on, so condolences and love to her family. God bless from north east Mississippi. ♥️♥️✌️
That grand baby she is holding will be able to look at this and cherish this video forever! You have done great work for us! I wish I can carry your legacy. -local New Orleans native who’s been doing ancestry for 20 years. I started at age 11 when my great great grandma was alive and I use to ask her all sorts of questions… who would’ve know I’d be here 20 years later still doing research lol
I love listening to my elders. They definitely have stories to tell you and have you realizing how lucky you are in this millennium,well some places. God bless her!
Ms. Lou Mae, touches my heart also. Such a precious soul. I just want to add that my husband and his brothers and sisters momma and daddy picked cotton. My husband was about 5 yrs old he said he walked to school onetime when he was in the second grade but he had to quit and pick cotton or whatever work they could find. I know he told me the time he n his family went 5 days w/o any food. He said they had all started dry heaving from not eating. I said why, he said there was no money to buy food, I’ve thought since then maybe it was between seasons. I’ve heard about how his fingers n his sisters talking about how their fingers were cut up skinned and anything else that could happen to them pulling on those old bolls of cotton. They did not have a good life either. Later on they went to work on the carnival. All did really well for themselves and all but 2 have gone on to be with the Lord.
Bless her heart. I love my black people no matter what! Furthermore, modern day plantations are a sin and are not empowering but allows one to reminisce of enslavement and socio-economic oppression.
Most southern states never left the slave practice or slave mentality. O feel for my beautiful precious people. They never pay the share croppers correctly anyway. They would always tell them they owe. My mother-in-law told me that a share cropper was murdered. Because he told the white man he was tired of him cheating him out of his money.
Miss Lula, I hope when you get to Heaven you get to spend a lot of time floating around on billowy, COTTONY, clouds. Just you and Jesus. God bless you,dear lady.
Bless your heart ms Lula Mae ,may you have eternal rest ,you have fought a good fight ,you have finish your course and I know you had to keep the faith ,rest on my dear sister,well done ,well done ,you can get some rest now ,no more hard work ,rest awhile ,well Done !
God bless this woman man!! Respect for that generation, to have the faith to still be alive and living these days too!! SHIT!! some folks dont understand, there is so much to learn and hear form these folks. It's right as its rain.
I got kinfolk in Glendora right now today. My mama, daddy, 3 brothers,1 nephew, plenty others buried in family plot across from my Grandmother Lela Williams home. Bittersweet memories.
I’m from Brookhaven Mississippi an I heard a lot a lot about Mississippi oooo, it nothing cute hard time Mississippi I remember I definitely definitely remember these days. May god continue to be with you-US -ALL N JESUS NAME AMEN 😇❤️💯. Mrs,Wilham. May god continue to be with you an blessings to you and your family n Jesus name amen 😇
You are a wonderful interviewer. Thanks so much for bringing her story to the masses. We need more people to do what you are doing because so many stories go untold. Lest we forget.
That's the lady from LaLee's Kin!!!! I always wondered what her name was. She is only at the beginning but she was unforgettable. Check out that documentary Lalee's Kin, it is subtitled, it left me speechless.
I bet this Elder could fry up some chicken. I had a Grandmother just like her she was from Mississippi and her parents where sharecropers also her name was Annie Mae born in 1906 and boy could she fry some chicken in them old cast iron skillets. Boy do i miss her...
Mr.Simmons what a beautiful woman. I to had a Grandmother just like yours and also was from Mississippi and her parents worked as sharecropers. I so miss her she was my best friend...
Lovely old lady, she reminds me of my white Scottish grandmother who used to tell us about when she was young she would have to out in all weathers to pick raspberries for pay and her face and eyes were so badly swollen by being bitten by midges that she was nearly unrecognisable. Her and her sister also worked in the cement factory breathing in dust and their skin being very badly irritated by the cement, their skin was broken and bleeding. Lou mae deserves a better life now ,poor old dear.
Her speech just blesses me! I remember growing up in East Texas, and the older people sounded like this so I could understand her just fine. We, the new generation, sound so proper compared to the way this sweet woman is talking. Older people these days aren’t the same as the ones that helped raise me because back then we still had the sense it “took a village” to raise children. Back then, I remember their homes would look like unpainted shacks from the outside way off the road but once you stepped inside it was warm and inviting. I remember when the older people would tell us their stories, keep us in line, spoil us with candy, cooked and fed us homegrown food, was our doctors with their home remedies that actually worked, and made sure we showed respect by saying yes ma’am and no ma’am and yes sir and no sir. Listening to this lady makes me wish I could go back in time just to see most of the older people who have passed on just one last time.
Way back then, Black people were not allowed to paint their houses, and the white people would not sell them any paint. I think they found wild berries and did the best they could trying to paint. Reckoning time is coming! They will reap what they sowed. If one thinks that they have escaped by dying, they have another think coming. All will rise again, and face the judgment seat of Jesus Christ!
Reminds me of my momma (adopted mom/great aunt) especially when she said us instead of we/our.. I had a dream 20 plus years ago about my mom and she was telling the hospital staff "I need to get out of this hospital because me and my baby gotta get us hair done". Thanks for the memory and RIP ms. lou mae. And love eternally my momma Anna Cat(she loved fishing and she caught plenty catfish hence Cat, lmao)
Remind me of my grandmother. I thank God for all of my ancestors. .. I thank God and I think all of my ancestors. All of the elderly African-American people. I understand very well how she's talking... I wish that I could meet her. Lot of wisdom people don't have that these days .. God continue to bless her and her whole family 🩷💙❤ love you,. I am ,62 yrs old . My mom is older than her.. if my mother was living she would be 91 years old. .
Living in Glendora....I would literally wager my life that she knew one of the despicable murderer’s of Emmett still...JW Milam, given he was from Glendora. So sorry she has passed, for I’d love to pose some questions about him to her. RIP🙏
One could only think for this lady to have shear utter happiness in her heart, after all the hurt and the forced-labor that she had to do she is able to smile and love because she patiently waited for God to rescue her only a woman with such charisma courageous amount of undiscovered and when I say undiscovered gratefulness could do this because there's not a bitter part in this lady's bones after all she witnessed her her family go through and what she went through pay homage to these women that carry courage and humanity for all the hard work that they were forced to do along with everything else they were grateful to be alive they were grateful for the little things they had received they were grateful for living this long
Bless her heart,I'm glad she made it through and I'm glad she still was in her right mind and was able to tell her story. God bless you and your family.
I am glad I found this video. Love all my people from down south I am a Southern girl myself, my mother is from Georgia .. I was born and raised in St Petersburg Florida. But I know my roots. My granddaddy was born in South Carolina. Southern . Southern girl until the end. I love elderly people. I received a lot of my blessings and wisdom from older people,. I miss my mom and dad so much 💜💛🩷💙
God bless you Lula Mae. 85 Years YOUNG. I couldn't lift a finger in that heat y'all work in. I pray everything goes well for you and your entire family. God Bless you.
It's very sad, I come from a tobacco planting family. My grandfather planted, picked, and cured tobacco. My mother even helped. They stopped in like 1997.
I hear it's some horrible things that happened down in glendora...best not to be out walking at night alone...even in 2019. Nothings changed there. God bless those brave enough to even stay there.
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE AND UPDATE ON OUR PEOPLE HERE MRS HARRELL❤❤❤I KEEP COMING BACK TO WATCH THIS STORY OVER AND OVER AGAIN MISSISSIPPI AND THE SOUTH STILL HAVE A GREAT LAND TO BUILD UP ON
She sounds exactly like my great aunt. Apparently her and her sister(my paternal grandmother) came from over there in Mississippi but I didn’t find out until this year. Now I know where their accent came from ☺️
She reminds me of my Great grandma she spoke like her same way and she used to keep her eyes closed too. I wish i knew more about her she fled from brasil with her children ( my grandma) during the revolution. She married a man way older she was 13 he was i think in his 40's i believe he was jewish man against her will. Our family is mixed as many others it is normal. In brasil there are many people that were brought against their will during the time where ships traveled with human traffickers the biggest colony is known to be BAHIA in brasil but south america had many ports. It hurts to not be thought of as part of suffering do to my color, cause i do have great pain when it comes to human suffering. i do value my Great grand ma and have great memories of her i used to sit and comb her hair she would fall asleep and then say she was just resting her eyes, my Mom loved her so much as we too did. My Mom passed on her Grandmas knowledge of natural herbs to cure us plants and survival skills. I was given Gods gift of having my children meet her before she passed, she was happy with a smile as the lord took her home to finally be where she belong, been fee years now that my Mom too is enjoying Gods heaven. Thank you God for allowing us to feel how great we are so strong as humans and somehow touch the lives of others and recognize their faults to be able to fix them.
This is my great aunt lou mae Willingham this is my grandma Annie willingham sister I love y'all Willingham family all the way from chicago Rip auntie
I Am TISH BISH god bless you and your family 🙏🏾
I Am TISH BISH You have amazing family love thank God we got to hear your auntie life story. May God bless her beautiful soul 🙏🏽 Rest In Love Ms. Lou Mae Willingham ❤️❤️
Judging from this video..... your aunt seem like she had so much joy and love in her heart. God bless her ♥️
How old is she on here and what year she sharecroped...love history and older folks you learn a great deal from them
AMEN AMEN AMEN LOVE HER! HER SPIRIT!
For people who call us lazy, look at this precious lady.
WE ARE LAZY! Hell, I am, compared to this GREAT LADY. YOU have to remember that this was when BLACK people had PRIDE and RESPECT and LOVE for EACH OTHER! My my, how times have CHANGED! It SEEMS like the better it gets for us, the WORSE we want to act and treat each other. NOT ALL OF US, but let's be HONEST,MOST of our (black people) problems come from WITHIN, yet we are so quick to BLAME ANYBODY BUT OURSELVES! I LOVE LOVE LOVE my ancestors and all that they went through for US to be better. Look around the BLACK neighborhoods and see what is going on...SHAMEFUL.
We was labeled lazy after slavery! Phuck them!
WHO cares what they think..
@@queenushiriyah5924 %
Nothing lazy about us
This brought me goosebumps all over. To hear the voice of my ancestor speak of her life, unbroken, respectfully, strong and full of dignity. I love your heart and thank you dear sister.
She too is a child of God, God bless her.
I don't know why people say they can't understand her. then again, I grew up in the south and in a predominantly black neighborhood. to me, she sounded like the grannies of my friends when i would go play at their house as a child. I understood her just fine. Bless her heart, she had it rough! It brought tears to my eyes to hear how proud she was that she was the best at what she did. There's a lesson there. No matter how hard the work or how unpleasant, you can always keep your dignity if you find something in which to take honest pride as in the case of a job well done. Wish she'd had a chance to realize her intellectual potential. No telling what she could've become if she'd had the chance with an attitude like that.
I understand her and I grew up in the Bronx, NY!
I understood every word and the fact that she took pride in what she could do.
Bless her heart, those were some hard times.
Yes, I commented on here. My husband and his family grew up as sharecroppers. They were very proud ppl. Anything they did in life was done right, clean and in order.
I'm a older white female and I understood her..just love her xx
Tears, Makes me think about my mom. She was the youngest, slowest cotton picker, her sister help her, when she became ill. Her hands changed, contoured, Every time I looked at her hands, I thought of that cotton, They sacrificed so much, Yet our younger generation has no clue, My mom is gone now, This video really touched my heart, Thank you for sharing.
R.I.P to your Mom ❤🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
I"m in Ms. My great grandma doesn't speak on these things but i found out in high school that she couldn't read or write. I'm proud of her because i found out she went and found a place that taught her so she could write on my graduation card herself this time. They are precious. Love you great grandma.
I'm from Louisiana. My great grandmother picked cotton and was a slave. I was able to speak to her AND care for her in her old age. I was able to get a job at the nursing home she was at and never told anyone I was her great-granddaughter so I could watch how they treated her. I used to sing to her in her room. I eventually revealed who I was after abuse was reportedly being used on her. I remember she told me how it hurt her fingers to pick it when she first started as a little girl then she said her fingers got used to the pricking. I never knew what she meant my that...I never knew cotton had thorns or thistles.....I miss her. This woman just gave us rich history. Bless her and bless you for sharing.
+jessypooh24 bless you, she reminds me of my great grandmother
+jessypooh24 bless you, she reminds me of my great grandmother
Same here and she was forced to raise white peoples children
I wonder how it feels for white people to see this. I wonder what type of opinion they have after women like this and your grandmothers history. It saddens me.....deeply.....wicked devils will pay......you know the reason that devil said to the other people "cant nobody beat Lula Mae" that was his demonic actions at higher production....he wanted to make a game of it....sorta what they do now
And thank you for sharing. I'm so grateful you took care of her under a guise. Those heathen devils treat all of our kind that way. I pray for them often
R.I.P Grandmother Lula Mae Willingham...You are truely missed by family and friends
Awww That was my Granny name too 😔 Two years ago now she passed.
My aunt's name was Eula Mae.
R.I.P. ❤🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 I LOVE LISTENING TO THIS VIDEO TO HEAR HER TALK! BLESS HER PRECIOUS SOUL
@@dahriyannoshalet9579 My Mother Name is LULA MAE Rose. We are from Glendora Miss. We moved to Memphis in 1956
My Mom is still alive. She's 102 yrs. Old.
@@loreneroberson5173 Wow! God bless you and your mother's heart I would love to hear the many stories about her life. You all are truly blessed to have her still with you all. May God continue to keep her for 102 more years 🙏🏾
Much love and peace from Wilmington Delaware
It always kill me when ppl say slavery ended in 1800s. That's a big fat lie.
We're slaves with a check AND they feel the need to work us the hardest because they pay us
Say it Loud. I was there an it ended for me when I was 14yrs old. I will give you the year. Send me your email.
No baby, No checks
Cash an carry.
They had so much came.
We never peeped a lot of it until later years to come.
@@garrettlatham2764i love you
@jamiegurley4230 exactly. North/union wanted wage slavery and that system won. Either way it's slavery
I work with the elderly and I'm in love with them they are filled with education and fact's😍
Yes they are!❤❤
Ms. Loe Mae Wilham touched my heart. Got me thinking how blessed I am.
I rather listen to the stories of the elders of my people than watch TV. To hear the stories of strength, determination, humility endurance makes me feel truly blessed of my heritage 💯❤️ 🙏🏽
Our foreparents were so strong. We need to step up our game family and pull together. God bless this lovely lady. 🌹
God Bless .... all of our ancestors, they have surely come a long way. we wouldn't have the opportunities we have now, if it wasn't for them and their sacrifices. I LOVE YOU ALL !!! .Thank You ....
Sweet Tee Black history didn’t start with slavery, don’t say we’ve came a long way
Access Denied Black history in this country we live in began with slavery and we have come a long way in this country. We don’t know our history from Africa other than our ancestors were captured by other Africans and put in chains and marched to the sea where white men paid them whatever the going rate was and loaded my ancestors on a boat and dropped them off in the Caribbean and North America were they were forced into slave labor.
YES THEY PUT IN WOOOORRRRK!
Thank you for uploading this beautiful video of Ms. Lou Mae Wilham. This is history, living history that needs to be archived and studied, never forgotten. I appreciate your effort.
She's Beautiful & That Voice... 🙌🏾
She's lovely I want to bring her flowers and listen to her stories
Season Roberts Flowers and food
Just spending time with her was a gift. If I was her great granddaughter I wouldnt never ask her for nothing in the world..just a hug and just listen to her. She is a earth angel that endured evil with a pure heart. I'm sure she met sweet jesus and he had open arms for her.
Tears. She still full of joy 😂
My grandmother was born in Glendora in 1914. She has since passed but my mom was telling me some family stories. My mom's family were sharecroppers and she said she started in the field at 8 years old. l found this video and my mom could definitely relate! This beautiful, wonderful woman is my family although we aren't related by blood. I have great aunts that looked just like her. :) l absolutely love my people! We are strong and we know how to survive. It may not seem like it based on our history, but we are blessed. I don't understand it all...the why's and all, but thank God he has covered us and kept us and continues to do so. :)
we ARE HIS Children
Im thankful i had it much easier and i celebrate all my elders who paved the way for me. they weren't just hardworking they were intelligent strong people. And i love to hear their wisdom.
I have to know you , born and raised in Glendora Ms
So sweet southern people are so cheerful. And boy does she look good to be 85 wow!
that is my grandmother I love you!
Is she still alive if so where is she living now ?
Sabrina Simmons your grandma is AMAZING Love 🙌🏽❤️
She's my granny too...a beautiful lady.
God bless your strong beautiful Grandmother 🙏may God continue to richly her abundantly!!
Nobody Business the awakening has truly began ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽Shalom
Tears in my eyes watching this, beautiful spirit in the midst of ugly circumstances. God bless
I bet she is full of history. She sounds like she has a warm heart. Cherish her because time is so short, just ask those of us who have lost their grandparents.
She said " guuurl" it's not funny but it tickled me. Laugh to keep from crying
One of the most awesome videos on TH-cam. Ms. Lou Mae and her positive outlook has inspired me today. God Bless Her.
I could listen to her for hours and hours- what history! She reminds me of my great- grandmother and her relatives and friends from when I was a little girl.
My Lord she reminds me of my grandmother and my great grandmother. Worked picking cotton from the age of 8 or 9, then in the chicken plants when they married in their teens. My great grandmother's father was white/Cherokee mixed blood, so they were sharecroppers. I remember them telling me stories about picking cotton "from can to cain't", until their fingers bled, and then getting into trouble for getting blood on the cotton. Stories of gutting chickens hanging overhead on the production line, and my tiny grandmother going home with blisters down her arms and sides from the hot blood and bile that poured down them during her 12 hour shift. My prayer is that we all become worthy of the sacrifices women like these made before us. What a wonderful lady in this video. I understand that she has passed on, so condolences and love to her family. God bless from north east Mississippi. ♥️♥️✌️
That grand baby she is holding will be able to look at this and cherish this video forever! You have done great work for us! I wish I can carry your legacy.
-local New Orleans native who’s been doing ancestry for 20 years. I started at age 11 when my great great grandma was alive and I use to ask her all sorts of questions… who would’ve know I’d be here 20 years later still doing research lol
I love listening to my elders. They definitely have stories to tell you and have you realizing how lucky you are in this millennium,well some places. God bless her!
A angel was here rip may u be with us in harmony in spirit never forget the strength u left us
I could listen to her tell a story all day .
My great grandmother's name was Ms. Lula Mae Willingham. Rest in peace grandma you will always live through us.
God Bless Ms. Lou Mae Wilham.. I pray her children have written her life story. She has alot of history in her.
Ms. Lou Mae, touches my heart also. Such a precious soul. I just want to add that my husband and his brothers and sisters momma and daddy picked cotton. My husband was about 5 yrs old he said he walked to school onetime when he was in the second grade but he had to quit and pick cotton or whatever work they could find. I know he told me the time he n his family went 5 days w/o any food. He said they had all started dry heaving from not eating. I said why, he said there was no money to buy food, I’ve thought since then maybe it was between seasons. I’ve heard about how his fingers n his sisters talking about how their fingers were cut up skinned and anything else that could happen to them pulling on those old bolls of cotton. They did not have a good life either. Later on they went to work on the carnival. All did really well for themselves and all but 2 have gone on to be with the Lord.
Thanks for listening.
Bless her heart. I love my black people no matter what! Furthermore, modern day plantations are a sin and are not empowering but allows one to reminisce of enslavement and socio-economic oppression.
i agree this makes me sad but extremely proud that in spite of what her life was like those devils couldn't break her spirit
Most southern states never left the slave practice or slave mentality. O feel for my beautiful precious people. They never pay the share croppers correctly anyway. They would always tell them they owe. My mother-in-law told me that a share cropper was murdered. Because he told the white man he was tired of him cheating him out of his money.
Sweet woman. The salt of the earth
I would Luv to go down south from California just to learn from ,and be around good ppl like miss Lula Mae Willingham.
Blessed! These are the people that carry us!!! Love from Chicago
Blessings to this elder..
I wonder how can she even laugh and smile with all the bs she's been thru..
Still got joy
Miss Lula, I hope when you get to Heaven you get to spend a lot of time floating around on billowy, COTTONY, clouds. Just you and Jesus. God bless you,dear lady.
Bless your heart ms Lula Mae ,may you have eternal rest ,you have fought a good fight ,you have finish your course and I know you had to keep the faith ,rest on my dear sister,well done ,well done ,you can get some rest now ,no more hard work ,rest awhile ,well Done !
God bless this woman man!! Respect for that generation, to have the faith to still be alive and living these days too!! SHIT!! some folks dont understand, there is so much to learn and hear form these folks. It's right as its rain.
This lady is a "child of God " we are the promise children of the land
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I got kinfolk in Glendora right now today. My mama, daddy, 3 brothers,1 nephew, plenty others buried in family plot across from my Grandmother Lela Williams home. Bittersweet memories.
My dad is from Glendora ( Johnny Sanders) my family eventually moved to Drew a few miles away
I love listening to her! I hear her spirit and it's BEAUTIFUL! RIP Ms Willie Mae! #mississippiproud
Rip Grandma I love you😘😘😘
Awwww how sweet...Ms Lou have a beautiful spirit🙏
Ms. Lou Mae Wilham is a hero. I love her.
I’m from Brookhaven Mississippi an I heard a lot a lot about Mississippi oooo, it nothing cute hard time Mississippi I remember I definitely definitely remember these days. May god continue to be with you-US -ALL N JESUS NAME AMEN 😇❤️💯. Mrs,Wilham. May god continue to be with you an blessings to you and your family n Jesus name amen 😇
God bless this sweet lady, Ms. Lou Mae Wilham. Thank you for taking the time to do this interview, it is priceless.
You are a wonderful interviewer. Thanks so much for bringing her story to the masses. We need more people to do what you are doing because so many stories go untold. Lest we forget.
That's the lady from LaLee's Kin!!!! I always wondered what her name was. She is only at the beginning but she was unforgettable. Check out that documentary Lalee's Kin, it is subtitled, it left me speechless.
I bet this Elder could fry up some chicken. I had a Grandmother just like her she was from Mississippi and her parents where sharecropers also her name was Annie Mae born in 1906 and boy could she fry some chicken in them old cast iron skillets. Boy do i miss her...
What a beautiful soul. God bless her.
We are the strongest people on Earth
Rip Grandma we miss you
Bennie Simmons your grandma is a beautiful soul and I pray she rest in Love and forever in God’s arms 🙏🏽❤️
Mr.Simmons what a beautiful woman. I to had a Grandmother just like yours and also was from Mississippi and her parents worked as sharecropers. I so miss her she was my best friend...
My Grandmother's name was Annie Mae... Love those old names...
LORD God, I pray this will.not happen again in this lifetime! BLESS her precious soul to join God in Heaven when he comes.
I miss my grandma so much she raised me from 2weeks old😢💔 she passed 3years ago🙏
Lovely old lady, she reminds me of my white Scottish grandmother who used to tell us about when she was young she would have to out in all weathers to pick raspberries for pay and her face and eyes were so badly swollen by being bitten by midges that she was nearly unrecognisable. Her and her sister also worked in the cement factory breathing in dust and their skin being very badly irritated by the cement, their skin was broken and bleeding. Lou mae deserves a better life now ,poor old dear.
Her speech just blesses me! I remember growing up in East Texas, and the older people sounded like this so I could understand her just fine. We, the new generation, sound so proper compared to the way this sweet woman is talking. Older people these days aren’t the same as the ones that helped raise me because back then we still had the sense it “took a village” to raise children. Back then, I remember their homes would look like unpainted shacks from the outside way off the road but once you stepped inside it was warm and inviting. I remember when the older people would tell us their stories, keep us in line, spoil us with candy, cooked and fed us homegrown food, was our doctors with their home remedies that actually worked, and made sure we showed respect by saying yes ma’am and no ma’am and yes sir and no sir. Listening to this lady makes me wish I could go back in time just to see most of the older people who have passed on just one last time.
Amen...
Way back then, Black people were not allowed to paint their houses, and the white people would not sell them any paint. I think they found wild berries and did the best they could trying to paint. Reckoning time is coming! They will reap what they sowed. If one thinks that they have escaped by dying, they have another think coming. All will rise again, and face the judgment seat of Jesus Christ!
I grew up in mineola tx. I understand
Absolutely shocking that this is happening in the wealthiest country in the world. God bless these beautiful people. 🙏🙏🙏
nothing shocking here. This was / IS Amerikkka
SHE WAS SO PROUD. THOUGH SHE SAYS IT WAS EXTREMELY HARD HER WORDS AND DEMEANOR SAYS PRIDE.
This bring back so many memories, my dad was also a share cropper in Alabama. I remember his stories
God Bless Her and All others who had to live such a life.
Every now and again I still come back and watch this, I grew up personally knowing this wonderful lady I salute you Ms Lula Mae.
Where is she now?
Is she still living?
She's so sweet God Bless her
Bless her soul
I love it.. She went through so much so we didn't have to.. I wish more black people respected the struggle more so it will lead them to greatness..
This is one video I watch everyday ... Just hear her talk real history
Reminds me of my momma (adopted mom/great aunt) especially when she said us instead of we/our.. I had a dream 20 plus years ago about my mom and she was telling the hospital staff "I need to get out of this hospital because me and my baby gotta get us hair done". Thanks for the memory and RIP ms. lou mae. And love eternally my momma Anna Cat(she loved fishing and she caught plenty catfish hence Cat, lmao)
Remind me of my grandmother. I thank God for all of my ancestors. .. I thank God and I think all of my ancestors. All of the elderly African-American people. I understand very well how she's talking... I wish that I could meet her. Lot of wisdom people don't have that these days
.. God continue to bless her and her whole family 🩷💙❤ love you,. I am ,62 yrs old
. My mom is older than her.. if my mother was living she would be 91 years old.
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God bless you Ms. Wilham!
Watching this made me proud! We don’t come from lazy people.
What a sweetie, I could listen to her speak all day.
Love my black folks. Nothing but wisdom. God bless you all❤❤
Living in Glendora....I would literally wager my life that she knew one of the despicable murderer’s of Emmett still...JW Milam, given he was from Glendora. So sorry she has passed, for I’d love to pose some questions about him to her. RIP🙏
I was wondering the same thing about those murderers and did she know them.
One could only think for this lady to have shear utter happiness in her heart, after all the hurt and the forced-labor that she had to do she is able to smile and love because she patiently waited for God to rescue her only a woman with such charisma courageous amount of undiscovered and when I say undiscovered gratefulness could do this because there's not a bitter part in this lady's bones after all she witnessed her her family go through and what she went through pay homage to these women that carry courage and humanity for all the hard work that they were forced to do along with everything else they were grateful to be alive they were grateful for the little things they had received they were grateful for living this long
Bless her heart,I'm glad she made it through and I'm glad she still was in her right mind and was able to tell her story. God bless you and your family.
She looks good for 85 and have a good personality I would love to sit and talk with her may God continue to bless her🥰🥰💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Ms. Lou Mae is precious. She is sweet as can be.
I am glad I found this video. Love all my people from down south I am a Southern girl myself, my mother is from Georgia
.. I was born and raised in St Petersburg Florida. But I know my roots. My granddaddy was born in South Carolina. Southern . Southern girl until the end. I love elderly people. I received a lot of my blessings and wisdom from older people,. I miss my mom and dad so much 💜💛🩷💙
God bless you Lula Mae. 85 Years YOUNG. I couldn't lift a finger in that heat y'all work in. I pray everything goes well for you and your entire family. God Bless you.
It's very sad, I come from a tobacco planting family. My grandfather planted, picked, and cured tobacco. My mother even helped. They stopped in like 1997.
Wow...... 1997 ?
Thank you for capturing these stories.
Thank you so much for posting this;)
Veronica/ Boston
Thanks for sharing!! My mother was born in Glendora. My grandmother and grandfather was raised here.
My grandmother and grandfather was born and raised their too then they moved to St Louis
I hear it's some horrible things that happened down in glendora...best not to be out walking at night alone...even in 2019. Nothings changed there. God bless those brave enough to even stay there.
I wish I had the opportunity to meet this precious lady, I would had given her the world just to give her a hug & anything she’d ask for.❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰🙏
She's a blessing
I would LOVE to meet some of these fine people. I would drive there to meet her!
our spirit is indominable! As Beyonce' sings you can't break my soul. This Lady is unbreakable!
I love you great grandma
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE AND UPDATE ON OUR PEOPLE HERE MRS HARRELL❤❤❤I KEEP COMING BACK TO WATCH THIS STORY OVER AND OVER AGAIN MISSISSIPPI AND THE SOUTH STILL HAVE A GREAT LAND TO BUILD UP ON
Omg she seem so nice and humble. Love my Southern black folk (esp older generations)
god bless her
"Children of The Promise"
Listening to her beautiful story in September 2023
Just Beautiful
She sounds exactly like my great aunt. Apparently her and her sister(my paternal grandmother) came from over there in Mississippi but I didn’t find out until this year. Now I know where their accent came from ☺️
Great interview.
She reminds me of my Great grandma she spoke like her same way and she used to keep her eyes closed too. I wish i knew more about her she fled from
brasil with her children ( my grandma) during the revolution. She married a man way older she was 13 he was i think in his 40's i believe he was jewish man against her will. Our family is mixed as many others it is normal. In brasil there are many people that were brought against their will during the time where ships traveled with human traffickers the biggest colony is known to be BAHIA in brasil but south america had many ports. It hurts to not be thought of as part of suffering do to my color, cause i do have great pain when it comes to human suffering. i do value my Great grand ma and have great memories of her i used to sit and comb her hair she would fall asleep and then say she was just resting her eyes, my Mom loved her so much as we too did. My Mom passed on her Grandmas knowledge of natural herbs to cure us plants and survival skills. I was given Gods gift of having my children meet her before she passed, she was happy with a smile as the lord took her home to finally be where she belong, been fee years now that my Mom too is enjoying Gods heaven. Thank you God for allowing us to feel how great we are so strong as humans and somehow touch the lives of others and recognize their faults to be able to fix them.
I love the Delta I live 40 min away from Glendora MS. I visit the Emmett Till historic site in Glendora