Who was Ellas Bates?
Ellas Bates was born in the sweltering heat of McComb, Mississippi in 1928—a child born into hardship’s unyielding grip. His early years were shadowed by struggles etched in the dust of the Delta. Fate, however, offered a flicker of hope when his mother’s cousin, Gussie McDaniel, took him into her home—adopting him as her own. […]
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