As a 12-year-old, she defied the KKK in order to comfort Freedom Riders injured in a firebombing
by Janie Forsyth McKinney In early 1961, I considered myself an unremarkable, shy seventh-grader except for the fact I made straight As, wore thick prescription glasses and had recently won the Alabama state spelling bee on the word “cloisonné.” But after the Freedom Riders ...