Earma Peterson was born in Crescent City, Florida in 1930 and had 14 children and over 100 grandchildren. In this podcast, she describes her life working on the farms of Apopka, Florida in order to support her family and tells a little of the history of her grandfather, who was killed for building a school and a church for slaves.

Farmworker Association of Florida, a SPOHP Podcast Series

If you would like learn more on these issues read Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food by Dale Finley Slongwhite.

Interview conducted and podcasted by Daniel Nigel Frank. Intro and Outro by Grace Chun.

https://floridafarmworkers.org/

Music: "Bus at Dawn by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).

Farmworker Association of Florida Collection at University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program FAF 009 Earma Lee Carey Peterson.

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