The Donna Winburn interview follows her life chronologically from her childhood on the farm, through several years of working for Maytag Corporation in Newton, Iowa, to her role as wife, mother, and farmer in the 1960s and 1970s. The bulk of the interview consists of her account of her circumstances, experiences, and activism during the 1980s farm crisis. Winburn was the bookkeeper of the family and had a clear grasp of how to deal with bankers and lawyers. She became a public speaker in the 1980s and became active with the Farmers’ Union in the mid 1980s. This interview also recounts her memories of African American children at her high school in the coal mining community of Albia.