When he was born, he was legally considered less than fully human. Born in segregated Washington in 1937, George Raveling and his family were second-class citizens, denied basic rights and dignities. And then it got worse from there. When he was nine, his father died at the age of forty-nine. His mother was committed to an asylum when he was thirteen. Effectively orphaned, this could have been another sad story from a long time ago. Instead, the life of George Raveling became something be...
