The Hero from Hopewell: The Rev. Curtis W. Harris and the Civil Rights Movement (Black History Month)
OnlineJust three months before Curtis Harris was born, the Virginia State Legislature passed the Racial Integrity Act, which banned interracial marriage down to “a single drop” of African blood. Harris was the sixth child of an impoverished sharecropper and his wife, living in a desolate outpost of the commonwealth while the sweeping regulation was passed…