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One story that stuck with Hartfield takes place shortly after her grandmother, Thelma Shepherd Rone, arrived in the North. It ...

There were a number of books that had a profound impact on Dr. King. Obviously ... When they were courting in 1952, Coretta sent Martin Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, with an inscription ...