Ida Rawls is my great grandmother also know as “Big Ma.” She’s been in our lives for as long as I could remember. When I was born, I made a different bond toward Big Man that nobody else had. I only wanted her when I cried and I always wanted to be at her house instead of my mom’s. Ida is almost 91 years she was born in 1926. Ida is Cherokee and African American. She had 6 children with my great grandfather who died before I knew him. Ida grew up in Alabama, Georgia. She had seen it all between segregation and desegregation. She didn’t like to explain all of it to us she just said to be proud of how we fought. Ida was very into school so it was stressful for her growing up.
