![]() I knew plenty about class because of our fragile economic status, but I never thought about race until I read Jonathan Kozol’s book, " Savage Inequalities" when I was a junior in high school in 1991. My parents divorced when I was a toddler and my mother worked as a secretary and cleaning lady. ![]() I grew up in Janesville, Wis., a nearly all-white town that was anchored by a General Motors assembly plant. My journey to Abbeville began years before I arrived on Robert Corbitt’s doorstep. Recy Taylor and her family welcomed me into their home and shared with me their most bitter and heartbreaking memories remains a profound act of trust and grace. Given the history of appropriation, theft and lies about black women’s sexuality by whites, including some historians, they had every right to distrust me. ![]() If they felt any cynicism or skepticism about a white historian asking for a black woman’s story of sexual violation, they did not show it. ![]()
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