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It's late summer, 1943, in Montgomery, Alabama. The businesses in the city center are

closing. Workers spill out onto the sidewalks, heading home in the early evening heat. A

30-year-old seamstress leaves her place of work by the back door. She's had a long day,

and she's looking forward to getting harmed, or her husband will be making dinner. But

first, she needs to get the bus. She hurries across the street to wait for the Cleveland

Avenue service. From the bus stop, she can see the grand fountain of Courts Square. It's

there, not all that long ago, that slaves were bought and sold, including maybe her own

great-grandparents. More than 80 years have passed since the

emancipation proclamation officially ended slavery in this country. But here, in Alabama,

painful reminders of the woman's own heritage are everywhere. Not least on the bus that

now pulls up. She moves with the line to board and gets her coins ready in her hand. She

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