Shirley Venada Veasey was born on February 9, 1935, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She was thefourth of eight children born to Sherman Timothy Terry and Ola McKay Terry. She was raised inthe small, rural town of her birth until migrating with the family to Detroit, Michigan at age nine.The family planted its roots in Detroit, where Shirley attended Sampson Elementary School,McMichael...