Los Angeles Superior Court
DOWNEY - Debra Cole-Hall lived the first six years of her life in the deep South during the height of the American Civil Rights Movement.
She was too young to understand the passion of three young civil-rights workers who spent one summer in her hometown of Meridian, Miss., so they could help black families register to vote - only to die for their efforts.
But she took to heart the wisdom of her mother, a nurse's aide, who made it clear to her children tha... (continued)
