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Remembering longtime civil rights activist Rev. Willie Barrow
They called her “Little Warrior.”
Her 4-foot-11 frame could not contain her spirit.
“A female I was born, a woman, I grew to be, a mother I’m proud to be, a Christian I chose to be and a minister I was called to be. And with all them ‘bes’ going from me, I can be anything I’m big enough to be,” Barrow used to tell her audiences.
Barrow was just a little girl, in a little town in Texas. It used to be, Barrow and other black children in the rural town of Burton, had to walk some 10 miles to get school--while their white classmates got a ride.
Her 4-foot-11 frame could not contain her spirit.
“A female I was born, a woman, I grew to be, a mother I’m proud to be, a Christian I chose to be and a minister I was called to be. And with all them ‘bes’ going from me, I can be anything I’m big enough to be,” Barrow used to tell her audiences.
Barrow was just a little girl, in a little town in Texas. It used to be, Barrow and other black children in the rural town of Burton, had to walk some 10 miles to get school--while their white classmates got a ride.
http://www.wbez.org/news/remembering-longtime-civil-rights-activist-rev-willie-barrow-111689
