by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 11, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“We were sexually abused by my grandfather after we moved in with him. My mother and aunt. My two sisters, my brother and me. My grandfather was jailed before I was born on pedophile charges. He raped his daughters and grandchildren living with him. I felt trapped....
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 10, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“Childhood was rough. My mom is white and my dad is black. The white side of our family is racist. My mom was homeless with us for a long time because we were mixed kids. I didn’t meet my grandmother until we were six. My mom married a man who sexually abused me...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 9, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“I was ‘Baby Miss Alabama’ and ‘Dixie Sweetheart,’ and won 48 trophies in beauty pageants by the age of eight. Some of the trophies were six feet tall. I dreamed of being a dancer or an actress, not a stripper. My father started molesting...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 8, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“I am from Augusta, Georgia but I ride with the Buffalo Soldiers from Columbia, South Carolina. We are in Mobile to celebrate the honorable legacy of the 9th and 10th Calvary. Buffalo Soldiers were the first African Americans who were allowed to participate in...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 7, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Hamilton, Alabama. I was 17 when I enlisted in 1942. I wanted to get out of farming. I didn’t want to plow with a mule and horse anymore. We went to the Atlantic and Normandy and southern France. Then went to Iwo Jima and Okinawa. I was a lookout...
