StoryCorps Atlanta: Gloria Ann Jackson Borrows A Famous Leader’s Tuxedo

This week on StoryCorps Atlanta, we’re doing something just a little different for Black History Month. We’re reaching back in our archives for a story from our 2007 StoryCorps Griot initiative.

Today, we’ll hear three sisters share their memories about a black-tie affair that one of them wanted to attend. Here, Gloria Ann Jackson recalls asking her sister, Hazel Jackson Smith, for a very big favor.

Broadcast version of the story.