Agents Genuinely Helpful
Gina E. Eubanks
Gina E. Eubanks
Gina E. Eubanks: If you notice one of the things I said to you. Early on, through my involvement in 4-H, the agents that I experienced were genuine. I didn't wonder if they were helping me because I was African American. Because they were genuine, they were just helping, they were just teaching. They were delivering educational information. Sometimes when you think about social change, some individuals may just do it because they have to. I'm willing to bet that John Harris, Clay Sampson, Tommy [?], Larry Brock, all them people . . . You know my mom didn't have anything. My mom was not a big farmer. We didn't have lots of money or anything like that, so they couldn't have been helping for that reason. So they had to be genuine. They had to see something in a little black girl from Clinton that they thought could go forward and become a productive citizen.