Our Grandpop is A Montford Point Marine! What's major is how the

What's major is how the poet soars and gets our spirits to fly as we read

Montgomery

and Emmy award-winner Kwame Dawes

Useni Eugene Perkins

and Black Aesthetic wanderings

Our Grandpop is A Montford Point Marine! What's major is how theThomas Strickland Turner Sr. was born May 16, 1925 to Edward Daniel Turner and Maude Butler Turner. His struggles against racial discrimination and segregation began when he was a child. He and four of his eight siblings, Constance, Barbara, Leroy and Francis were among the African American students who were barred from attending the New Easttown Elementary School in Pennsylvania during 1932 because of their color. The discriminatory practices to