Woman Fights to Keep Her Land
By AAN Staff
january 23, 2002 10:53 am
Rose Farley of the Dallas Observer tells the riveting story of
Murdine "Baby Ruth" Berry, who fought a years-long legal battle to get back the bulk of the 100 acres her great-grandfather, a freed slave, paid a couple of bales of cotton to possess. Farley details not only Berry's long struggle to keep
possession of the family farm, but the emotional
scars it left on her. "If they think I'm going anywhere,
I'm not going anywhere," Berry tells the Observer. "I'll stay here. I don't intend to give
it up. I'm a fighting monster."