Paulette Roby learned the meaning of civil disobedience when she was 13 years old.
As a budding teenager in Birmingham, Alabama, Roby wanted to take part in civil rights demonstrations organized in her hometown by Dr. Martin Luther King in 1963, but her mother refused to let her leave school. Young Paulette followed her conscience, took part in demonstrations and marches, and she’s never regretted it. Her mother eventually forgave her.
More than 60 years later, Roby and a friend who joined her in protest all those years ago, Judy Stickney, journeyed from Birmingham to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention to see first hand the ascent
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