Charles Oliver Longstreet, Sr.
Apr 18, 2023
Charles Oliver Longstreet, Sr. was born Friday, February 4, 1944, in Coffeeville, Yallowbusha County, Mississippi, to Annie Derden and Welton Longstreet.
He was raised on the farm with his eight siblings in Grenada, Mississippi. His childhood was rough, growing up poor in the South, living through Jim Crow and unjust racial discrimination. He and his brothers and sisters worked...
