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22 J. S. Legal Hist. 5 (2014)
An Interview of Dr. Verner Chaffin on March 16, 2012

handle is hein.journals/jslh22 and id is 17 raw text is: ORAL HISTORY An Interview of Dr. Verner Chaffin on March 16, 2012 Conducted by Dr. Cayce Myers DR. MYERS: I am Cayce Myers with the Journal of Southern Legal History, and we are here today, Friday, March 16th, 2012, to interview Dr. Verner Chaffin. Dr. Chaffin is a retired professor at the University of Georgia School of Law where he was the Fuller E. Calloway Professor of Law. We are in Dr. Chaffin's home in Athens, Georgia. Good afternoon, Dr. Chaffin. DR. CHAFFlN: Good afternoon. DR MYERS: I would like to start by talking about your early life growing up in Toccoa, Georgia with your parents and grandparents. DR. CHAFFIN: My father graduated from medical school in 1914, but he was really a self-made individual. His mother died when he was thirteen. The family was in disarray, and his father's subsequent marriage didn't work out. So all the children were on their own. My father taught school at Stone Mountain and then came to the State Normal College. He finally went to medical school in Atlanta and worked his way through. He decided to begin his practice in Martin, Georgia, a small unincorporated community of about 400 people between Toccoa and Lavonia, Georgia, on Georgia Highway 17. That's where I was born in a rambling, wooden two-story house. My mother was born in the same house, but we were in different counties. She was born in Franklin County, and when I was born in 1918, a