She was 13 when John Lewis showed up in the early hours of the morning at her parents’ house, beaten, bloodied, exhausted, and looking for refuge from a white mob.
in the wee hours of the morning at her parents' house, beaten, bloodied, exhausted and looking for refuge from a white mob. Her parents opened the door to their home.
Montgomery remembers her father swearing his kids to secrecy as the Freedom Riders met in upstairs rooms to plan their next move. “It was just, ‘You don’t tell anybody where they are.’ You didn’t ask any questions,” she said. She was in Washington for the unveiling of his monument and was shocked when she saw it. “I didn’t see this man,” she said, crossing her arms. “I saw the man in the doorway.”
Vera Harris sat on her front porch telling stories of the neighbors and friends she knew over the years until she died at 96 last year.
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