A shift in the political focus in China coincided...  ...n 1968, which led to a year-long fad that equated mangos with China's leader Mao Zedong. The rejection of...  ...ss as the vanguard of communist idealism. And the mangos just happened to be in the right place at that ti...  ...ed by the student Red Guards)...

(YouTube link) Storycorps listened to cousins James Ransom and Cherie Johnson as they remembered their childhood Sunday school teacher Miss Lizzie Devine, "the only woman who scared them more than their grandmother....