On an unusually balmy night in early January 1951, she and her husband of 25 years left the world they knew in Tennessee and moved to Michigan. Her maternal aunt had made a similar journey about 10 years before. However, the aunt had moved from Stanton to Memphis, and it was from Memphis that Auntie …

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