Quotes About Rural Louisiana

My mom, Clida, taught my four brothers and me about her father's work to organize black voters in rural Louisiana in the 1950s. We carried her dad's legacy of activism with us. The Civil Rights Movement was present in the daily life of my family in Detroit in the 1970s.

I used to spend summers with my Granma in Louisiana; Crowley, LA.

I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.