Grant, an educator who worked primarily in Hamilton County, Illinois, discusses his years in the teaching profession: teaching and principal positions, service as county superintendent, consolidated schools, and service as the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He discusses his own rural education, high school years, attending Southern Illinois Normal School (now SIUC), his family background, farm life, WWI, influenza epidemic of 1918, entertainment, holiday celebrations, Depression, Pearl Harbor and the outbreak of WWII. He also discusses the conditions for African Americans in Williamson County, the Ku Klux Klan, segregated schools in Cairo, Illinois, ethnic and racial minorities working in the coal mines, and coal mining disputes. The memoir also contains an essay written by Grant in which he recalls his grandmother and his childhood.

4 tapes, 291 mins., 78 pp Interview by Marilyn Anderson, 1980 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes, photographs of Grant, a photocopied newspaper article about Grant, and a copy of his family tree.