Poverty Extends a Long Way

Eddie Travis grew up living in small tenement houses in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with his nuclear family. He spent a great deal of time staying with his extended family members on his mothers side of the family. The two members of his extended family with whom he spent the most time were his mothers aunt and uncle, who raised his mother. His mothers mother died when his mother was seven years old, and his mother was sent to live with her daddys brother and sister. Her daddy was always around, b...