“As a young woman, I was very much interested in the Civil Rights movement, but my mother never allowed me to speak my mind about such a sensitive topic. She always thought I was just a little girl who didn’t know what she was talking about.” But a young, intelligent Tamille Wells understood the very aspect of the Civil Rights Movement and the motives behind it. As Tammy graduated from American High School, her attention veered towards the Civil Rights Movement and she felt it was “her calling,” as she called it. Her community was a predominantly black community in an inner city in South Florida. Many people in her community did not seem as interested or affected by the historical movement. But everyone knew to follow the rules of not conversing nor interacting with whites. Tammy Wells, at the time a 19 year old high school graduate, was working as a waitress in a restaurant catering to African Americans only, had been moved by the words of powerful speaker Martin Luther......
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