Martha Bireda And Jaha Cummings Talk About Their Roots

StoryCorps Southwest Florida

Martha Bireda And Jaha Cummings Talk About Their Roots

August 24, 2017

71-year-old Martha Bireda speaks with her son, 43-year-old Jaha Cummings, in this week’s StoryCorps of southwest Florida about their ancestry and their roots in what was then a segregated Punta Gorda.

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Local stories recorded by StoryCorps during its visit to Fort Myers during January 2017. StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.