duffy on caucus new jersey just a while back and her life has changed an afwul lot this is dorothea on public television you have a very rare autoimmune disease that effects your vascular and respiratory system correct on a transplant list for that period of time a couple years, um you're waiting for a kidney waiting for a kidney i'm listed in two clinics ne in pennsylvania in philly and one in st barnabas now on dialysis? 'm on dialysis three days a week and what's that like? um kind of um i understand exactly what denise said you accept your life as it is for now right and you make the best of it um it's something i know i have to do and one of my main goals is to stay as healthy as i can so i'm ready for that kidney when it becomes available go ahead so it finally became available by the way what was it like seeing that? seeing that...? do you recognize that lady? [laughter] yeah i know who she is and how much different do you feel today than then? well one thing i feel like i lived up to what i just said i kept myself ready for that day when i finally got the correct call for th

photographer dorothea lange and painter maynard dixon were embraced as two giants of the american artorld. but as parents, their talents had different effects. - maynard wasn't there, dorothea was. - i did feel not just lonely but abandoned. announcer: a story of great gifts and insidious curses in child of giants.

photographer who is kind of the modern day dorothea lang or walker evans we pulled off the side of the road and came up over the railroad tracks. and we pulled up to this shack and a little better shape and basically a tarpaper shack. and as we walked up we could see that there were rabbit furs that had been -- that were -- ammered onto the wall. i knocked once, twice, this place was on stilts and the door creeked open and there stood this black man who looked like he had been lifted out of the mississippi delta, 1930's. he had a stutter. and later he told us that he came west with a stutter. one state at time. his name is james dixon. 95 and living here and had lived here since the 1940's. he was part of this migration of blacks who did something that no blacks in america -- went against the grain of the great migration. that great migration went from south to the northern industrial cities. and if it came west, it came to oakland and san francisco and l.a. but there was a tribe of blacks, black oakies, from the south and southwest. who wanted to retain the rural lifestyle. it was ver