Cousins - by Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby
What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, contacts a Black woman, Betty, saying she suspects they are connected through slavery? Open to exploring difficult truths and sharing an admiration for Dr. Martin Luther King, they embark on a path toward reconciliation. Each tells her dramatic story – from Betty’s experience desegregating her country’s only high school, to Phoebe’s eventual question to Betty: How do I begin to repair the harms? Piercingly honest. Includes a working reparations projects which the two women conceived together.
What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, contacts a Black woman, Betty, saying she suspects they are connected through slavery? Open to exploring difficult truths and sharing an admiration for Dr. Martin Luther King, they embark on a path toward reconciliation. Each tells her dramatic story – from Betty’s experience desegregating her country’s only high school, to Phoebe’s eventual question to Betty: How do I begin to repair the harms? Piercingly honest. Includes a working reparations projects which the two women conceived together.
What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, contacts a Black woman, Betty, saying she suspects they are connected through slavery? Open to exploring difficult truths and sharing an admiration for Dr. Martin Luther King, they embark on a path toward reconciliation. Each tells her dramatic story – from Betty’s experience desegregating her country’s only high school, to Phoebe’s eventual question to Betty: How do I begin to repair the harms? Piercingly honest. Includes a working reparations projects which the two women conceived together.