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If you have watched any sort of television about Black life in the last few years it would be hard to miss the image of six-year-old standing alongside her aunt in Alabama under a Colored Entrance sign. But while the image has been used to exemplify an America that once was, the story of Shirley Blackwell and her mother Allie Lee Causey being told is long overdue. ....

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