BORN: Monday, November 10, 1890 in Perry, AL

HOME-GOING: Wednesday, April 08, 1981 in Birmingham, AL

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She was called "a taskmaster" by her son, William. She was a complex woman of vision, a philosopher, a storyteller, a healer, housewife, a Mother of four children. Above all, she was dedicated to her family and raising her children and grandchildren.

Corene's Early Life

Corene Dancy was the daughter of former slave, Rhoda Bryant and John Green, Jr., a Black Creek Indian. Corene grew up on the Morrisette Plantation in Alabama. She attended elementary school at the Lilly Hill Baptist Church and later the famous Snow Hill Institute founded in 1893 by Dr. William J. Edwards, a graduate of Tuskegee University.

At a relatively young age she married Robert Huffman. The marriage was doomed as Mr. Huffman was a heavy drinker and frequently returned home intoxicated. Corene says, "I didn't know what was wrong with him." She later, at the age of 21, Corene moved to the Birmingham area to escape this bad marriage. At that time others moved off the land because of crop failures. The land was just worn out and the South was suffering from terrible droughts. In the Birmingham area, Corene Dancy lived in McCulley's Quarters. McCulley's Quarters was a place where poor, working class black people lived until they could afford to move to a bigger house or could afford to buy their own house. The area might have once been part of a plantations slave quarters. They were all shotgun houses, mostly two-room places. No electricity, of course. Even after TVA [Tennessee Valley Authority] came to the Birmingham area.

Things that Influenced Corene's Life

The Morrisette Plantation, the Great Depression and her Father, John Green.

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