ida mae brandon gladden, george swanson starling and robert joseph pershing foster. tell us something about ida mae brandon gladden. where did she come from? did you meet her and why did you pick her? >> guest: she was from chickasaw county mississippi. she was the wife of a sharecropper will go where they were working the land of the plants are not counted just before the depression and once the depression hit they were still there. she was terrible at picking cotton and that was one of the things i was interested in. it turned out she was really bad at it and i was glad to tell you that. she had a wonderful way of incorporating both the south and the north into her psyche. she never changed her accent from the moment she arrived in chicago. she spent three times more years in chicago than she did in