As an assignment for one of his history classes for Professor Colin Smith , Manchester High School senior Elijah Crabtree chose to interview and write an essay on the life of Ms. Esta Carter and was kind enough to share the assignment with the Defender for publication.

A lot has happened from 100 years ago to today, with many major events and inventions. The purpose of this assignment is to gather the perspective of an individual that has experienced a century’s worth of events. I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to interview a person whose life witnessed almost every major event and shift in the 20th century and early 21st century. The person I’m going to interview is Ms. Esta Carter of Manchester, Ohio. Esta was born July 8th, 1923, her full name at birth was Esta Albertine

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