Redding. >> so people outside of here wouldn't think to describe it as cosmopolitan, but it must have felt that way. >> very much so. there were people named vecinni, and people named miss willie mae. it was a rich mixture of the black south meeting ining the appalachian white south in this place right here. a very unique town. this town right here was owned by the largest company in the united states at the time, united states steel. and their money was in coal. and our parents were part of that labor movement. >> in the 1920s and 30s, the coal industry in central apalachicola employed 150,00...