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    earning their wings

    Dec 28, 2021 2 minutes

    Grandma’s Wedding Day

    ANGELA STROZIER BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA

    I was watching the movie with my 94-year-old grandma. During the wedding scene, Grandma said, “I always wanted to try on a wedding dress.” In 1952, when my grandparents, Lehman and Martha Tucker, got married in Alabama, Black people were not allowed

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