Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180618:02:14:00
Towork and six miles home and 90 cents day. working in a sawmill not like what you do. >> leave it to my dad to roast me on my tv show. >> mobile was the wig city. >> it was the wig city. you either went to mobile, montgomery or birmingham. my dad went south. >> why did they pick mobile? >> work. >> during the war years my grandfather with 90,000 others moved to alabama forwork. they had a port and it was perfect for manufacturing. there was so many jobs the south couldn't afford to be racist so they hired everybody. 20% of the rural black population flocked. it was an opportunity to increase ...