An American story that needs to be told.

Hi, I am George Northrop, and I am raising money for Billie Gaines. Billie is a remarkable member of our community, residing in the same apartment in Dunwoody for four decades. Hailing from Alabama, she is an alumnus of Vassar College (Class of 1958) and was awarded a subsequent PhD in Russian literature. Her story is one that deserves to be heard, and we have the responsibility to support her in sharing it. As an African-American woman raised in the southern United States, Billie graduated from high school nearly two weeks after the groundbreaking Supreme Court decision of Brown versus the Board of Education. Throughout her life, she has been deeply involved in issues of diversity and inclusion. Billie is diligently working on documenting the pivotal role that education played in her family’s journey from the cotton fields of Alabama to becoming founding students at the inception of Tuskegee University. We kindly request your assistance in helping her complete her research in sharing this crucial chapter of our nation’s history.