Equality

This Story Won a 2021 International Human Rights “Creators of Justice Literary Award” Honorable Mention

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In 1952 when I was 9 years old, my father was stationed at an Air Force base in Atlanta, Georgia. Soon after we moved into a new house there, other officers’ wives started suggesting to my mother that she hire a “Negro” maid (at that time, “Negro” was the polite term for…