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In the donor's words
“John Western Glasker, familiarly known to his many friends as “JW,” was bora into a farming and sharecropping family in Woodville, Virginia, in 1927. He was the grandson of slaves who had been native to Piedmont Virginia for generations. JW had a number of sisters and at least one brother. Economic conditions were hard in rural, Depression-era Virginia, and particularly so for this large family”
“When JW was small, the
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