Verda Byrd

"This is the true story of an adoptee that spent her first few years not realizing what adoption meant. Today, that individual, Verda Byrd lives in San Antonio, Texas. Verda was legally adopted at the age of five by a Negro family. She was born in 1942; in 1943 she was placed in the foster care system in Kansas City, Missouri; her place of birth. Having spent seventy years as a Negro, Verda thought I have been in 'Seventy years of blackness.' Blackness...