“Amara, you could get a significant amount of money,” she said. “You have every right to it.”
“I know,” I said. “File it.”
She did. Six months later, Pell County’s insurance carrier settled my claim for $425,000.
I retained na settlement.
I gave $200,000 to establish the Hattie Mae Greene Scholarship at Fort Valley State, for students from Pell County who want to study law or criminal justice. I gave $125,000 to the Georgia Legal Services Program, earmarked for heirs’ property cases in rural Georgia. That’s land passed down without a will through generations, the sort of property that’s easiest to steal because nobody holds clear title.
Y le di los últimos $100,000 a la Iglesia Bautista Misionera Mount Zion en Halvorsen Springs. La tía Lorraine y Hattie Greene habían enseñado la escuela dominical juntos durante sesenta años. Los diáconos lo usaron para arreglar el techo, construir una rampa para que las personas con andadores y sillas de ruedas pudieran entrar y comenzar una pequeña clínica legal en la sala de becas el primer sábado de cada mes.
