The Autobiography of Grady S. Simmons

Grady S. Simmons

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My mother, Pamela Ann Mayo, was born in Bangor, Maine. She was raised in a home of staunch Klansmen, and her father held high rank and respected notoriety in that group. So when his daughter got pregnant by a young Black man, as you can imagine, all hell broke loose. I don't remember her telling me that she was beaten for getting pregnant with me, but she did tell me that they were furious with her for getting pregnant by a Black man. Her father and mother ordered her to get an abortion, telling her that aborting me would be the best solution— and that if she refused, she could no longer live with them.