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• W1574459502 abstract "RODNEY EARL SLATER WAS BORN IN Marianna, Lee County, Arkansas, on February 23, 1955. He earned degrees in political science and communication from Eastern Michigan University in 1977. In 1980, he graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Law. He served as Arkansas's assistant attorney general from 1980 to 1982 and was appointed to the Arkansas Highway Commission in 1987. President Bill Clinton selected Slater to be the director of the Federal Highway Administration, making him the first African American to serve in that post. Slater subsequently served as United States Secretary of Transportation (1997-2001). In 2001, Mr. Slater joined the law firm of Patton Boggs LLP as a partner and in 2004 became a partner with James Lee Witt Associates. following is a composite of two interviews conducted by Scott Lunsford, associate director of the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, in Washington, D.C. on March 15, 2006. A transcription of the full interviews is available at pryorcenter.uark.edu (see Featured Interviews). Rodney Slater: Some of the earliest remembrances I have deal with shooting marbles and learning to ride a bike and learning to read. I remember early on picking cotton, doing many of these things with my mother. I remember instruction given to me not only by mother, but my grandmother as well. I remember my stepfather and the hard work that he personified. You know, three and four jobs-mechanic, tow truck driver, sold cars, did any number of things-cleaning up two or three places on the side. And from those experiences, I learned an appreciation for family to be sure. I learned a lot about faith, too. I mean, believing that tomorrow could be better than today. You know, the stories we read about in the Bible and especially those Old Testament stories, it seems, of people overcoming and having faith to endure. I remember the evening news and how that was as much an educational experience as anything. We watched a little television for entertainment, but it was one of those little black-and-white, nineeleven- inch deals. And you'd have to put a little hanger in the top of it and move it around. And I remember being encouraged to listen to how the people were speaking. [Eric] Sevareid. [Walter] Cronkite. Just listening to what they were talking about. And it was fascinating because it gave you an insight to a part of the world and a part of the country that was not necessarily your day-to-day experience. My sisters, Jacqueline, who's the oldest, and Louise-we used to watch the cars go by-on our front porch. We lived in the north end [of Marianna]. You know, this is one of those traditional shotgun houses- three room-and you play this game: The next car is your car. next car is mine. My cars used to always seem to need some repair. But that didn't matter because it was the anticipation, and then it was the wonder, you know, Where are they going? Can they make it there? That's really what I think helped me develop my interest in transportation-watching the cars go by in front of our house and wondering where they were going. And being intrigued by that. Scott Lunsford: Was your mother a housewife? Did she stay at home and take care of the kids? RS: She did, but I remember picking cotton alongside my mother. And for a period, she served as a domestic. She got work where she could. Then later on, fortunately she was able to get a job at Sanyo, which was a manufacturing plant in Forrest City. One thing about my family was that they really stressed education. It's interesting, you'll find this in African-American families where a lot of the older children may not get a chance to go to college, and then the younger kids get a chance to do so. I've got uncles and some aunts who were able to do that. I was able to see that the family was making this kind of a move and was encouraging that. You have to balance that with the need-if you're sharecropping or whatever-to do that work. …" @default.
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