I don’t think I can overstate how lucky Dillard was to have her as president at the time,” Walter Kimbrough said.

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My mother doesn’t have any of her baby pictures. Years of storms washed them away. She grew up in southeast Louisiana—hurricane country—and I did, too. It’s a place where some names aren’t just names.