Roberta Wright, like her sisters and brothers before her, fled the deep south of Mississippi after graduating from high school in 1962 to escape the injustice of Jim Crow laws. She...view moreRoberta Wright, like her sisters and brothers before her, fled the deep south of Mississippi after graduating from high school in 1962 to escape the injustice of Jim Crow laws. She also wanted to find a better for herself and for her family. She was the tenth of Beatrice and Sam’s fourteen children.view less