Martha.

Martha Bolden-Kennedy-Alford was not a woman to be messed with.

She lived in the small town of Paris, Texas and had auburn hair and gray eyes circled by a ring of hazel. And she was Black, though could have 'passed' had she wanted.

There wasn't a woman who could outwit her. And there wasn't a man who could handle her.

It was 1950, so it was rare that women lived by their own rules - especially Black women.. But Martha wrote the book.

Her first husband reprimanded her once by slapping her so hard that she fell out of a chair. She repaid him with her wrought-iron skillet.

But slamming that skillet into her husband's face was the least of her deeds.

Yet, she had a heart of gold and loved and protected her family and friends.

This 10 page short is an account of one of her stories included in my autobiography, BLACK PICKET FENCE.

Martha Bolden-Kennedy-Alford was my aunt.

And she taught me everything she knew.

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