Her early fascination with court proceedings was compounded by stories of her grandfather, also a pastor, who in the 1930s helped people flee to the north to escape persecution under the Jim Crow laws of the time.
Her early fascination with court proceedings was compounded by stories of her grandfather, also a pastor, who devised his own version of the Underground Railroad, in the 1930s. He helped people flee to the north to escape persecution under the Jim Crow laws of the time.