What Do I Know? Dr. Kathy Humphrey
I was tenth in a family of 12 children. My mother was a secretary and seamstress. My father was a bricklayer who was in the Army and stationed in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he met my mother.
This was at the time of “Jim Crow” and, after my father’s discharge from the service, my parents moved from the Deep South to Kansas City, Missouri, where I was born.
My parents moved to the Midwest with the hope that their children might have a better opportunity for an education. If you read the book The Warmth of Other Suns, about the six million African Americans who moved from the South to the North and West between 1915 and 1970, you will see that my parents’ relocation was a natural progression for black families at that time.
Author summary: Dr. Kathy Humphrey shares her family story.