Wit, will & walls

Fisher, Betty Kilby, 1945- author.

Book 2002

""Wit, Will & Walls" is a powerful epic of an African American family's struggle for equality. Betty Kilby was an "infant plaintiff" in the Betty Ann Kilby vs. Warren County Board of Education, which followed the landmark Supreme Court case Brown Vs. the Board of Education. The Kilby family struggle started long before, when her father, James Kilby, took on Old Virginia's deeply rooted apartheid system. James Kilby had been raised in what can onl...

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