This week I have been remembering the summer day last year when I finally got to meet Willa Cofield. She was 96 then, and though she seemed and still seems far, far younger, I think that she would be the first to understand that I was beginning to wonder if we would ever meet face to face.
Willa Cofield
The Nine O’Clock Whistle
One of this year's most highly anticipated new books on America's civil rights movement has just come out-- Willa Cofield, Cynthia Samuelson, and Mildred Sexton's The Nine O'Clock Whistle: Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina.
