May 17, 2014, Montgomery, Alabama, about 3 p.m. Her eyes. They are so blue, piercingly blue. I catch my breath audibly. But it isn’t just her eyes that get me — it is the moment. I can’t believe it. And in response, she laughs, kindly, cheerfully at me. I am […]
Estimated reading time: 12 minutes
May 17, 2014, Montgomery, Alabama, about 1 p.m. I’m in a car with Carol B., whom I met in person five minutes earlier. She picked me up from my friend Margaret’s house in Montgomery. Carol’s taking me to meet her mother, Jule Wilson Perry, who I found about six months […]
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes