The time has come”), Kushner himself sent Henry a letter. “He couldn’t believe he had never seen a Black Prior,” Henry recalls. “I printed that letter out, and I framed it. I feel like ...

For many black Tennesseans, there were no jobs at all. In Knoxville alone, all the bakers had been black prior to the Great Depression; by 1934, every baker was white. That same year, there were only ...