Molly Parmer & JoEllyn Jones

JoEllyn L. Jones grew up in Gouldtown, New Jersey, a South Jersey community she describes as one of the first free Black communities in the country. In this conversation with Molly Parmer, she talks about the neighbors and teachers who raised her there, a school curriculum centered on African American history, and the second-grade T-shirt that said she wanted to be a lawyer. On December 29, 1998, her brother, Robert "RJ" Jones, was shot and killed, six months before she graduated from high s...