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Reviewed on March 15, 2003
In 1973, when Stevie Wonder's Innervisions won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, he refused to accept the award unless his mother, Lula Hardaway, walked to the stage with him. From the podium, he announced, "Her strength has led us to this place." Like many African Americans of her generation, Hardaway was a part of the great migration north in pre-Civil Rights Alabama. Born in a sharecropper's shack in Alabama's Black Belt, she didn't know her mo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
