As a child in the 1940s, Sirretha Joy grew up on a family farm in rural Mississippi.
Her father died when she was young, and so at age seven she began cooking, cleaning, and caring for her five younger siblings.
StoryCorps: Sirretha Joy & Felicia Joy
At StoryCorps, she told her daughter Felicia Joy about her ambitions to get off the farm, and what came of them.
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