a bourbon-loving, Yeats-quoting, white Catholic mother of seven. In 1969, she left her ironing board and joined six black men on the baking Arkansas blacktop in a civil rights march. It bore contradictory fruit: V, as [C.D.] Wright calls her, was tossed in jail. Her car was burned up. Her husband, the town's appliance-store proprietor, served her with divorce and custody papers, and went on the radio to disown her. A state trooper drove V across the Arkansas line and put her out in Tennessee.
from The Plain Dealer: C.D. Wright makes 'One with Others' a masterpiece
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