On Sunday evenings, Barbara would talk things over with Grandpa Patten. Would she become a preacher like her father, and like her mother could have been? Or a teacher, like those who encouraged her at Phillis Wheatley High? Or perhaps she’d become a lawyer. Not many black women had achieved that. But one who had done so visited Wheatley and gave a stirring speech.
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