Adeline C. Erwin’s Story
“Music saved my mother’s life,” Judy Neville, Gratz Opus 118 Music & Dance founder said. Adeline Erwin, Judy’s mother, was an African American school girl in the 1930’s. She felt like she didn’t belong. In those days, elementary schools were segregated, but high school was not. Adeline felt awkward walking the halls of her Topeka Kansas, …