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William R. Ferris Collection #KeeperoftheDay

by Barrett Golding | Jan 8, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers

William Ferris grew up on a farm in Warren County, Mississippi in the 1940s and 50s. The Ferris family, the only white family on the farm, worked side by side with African Americans in the fields. As a teenager he began documenting his neighbors’ lives, the...

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