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Wit Will and Walls
Betty Kilby Baldwin
I stand now as a person in charge of my life, but I often reflect back on how I survived the most traumatic circumstances that could have jeopardized this reality.
September 11th has been a day of remembrance in my life for 50 plus years. It was this date in 1958 that the judge made the final decision in my case of Betty Ann Kilby vs Warren County Board of Education that forced the desegregation of my high school. The date is as significant to me as my birthday.
Tom Dewolf, author of Inheriting the Trade
by Tom Dewolf
When I joined nine distant cousins to retrace the steps of our ancestors through the notorious triangle slave trade route from New England to Ghana then Cuba and back I was unprepared for the profound impact our journey would have on my life. I wrote Inheriting the Trade (Beacon Press) in part to try to make sense of my experiences.
