![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three decades later, Lisa Delpit-educator, author, and mother-is still crossing lines and challenging the status quo. She became one of a handful of frightened black students to integrate first one and then another Catholic high school in her hometown. The world was changing and dragging a reluctant Baton Rouge along with it. All that’s certain is that Thomas Delpit didn’t get one, and he left behind, among others, his 7-year-old daughter.Īs Lisa grew into a pretty, plump teenager with light skin, freckles, and reddish hair, the lines that prescribed her life began to break down. Whether the hospital had a dialysis machine at all or whether it just was not in the habit of sharing it with its black patients is unknown. At the time, the local hospital maintained a separate ward for “colored” patients. Her father, Thomas Delpit, died at age 47 of kidney failure when he could not get access to a dialysis machine. ![]()
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