Ben's supervisor had to step in. That resolved things. Joseph, Georgia, Robert, John Albert, Phillip, James Isaac, Lawrence, Rudolph and Carl. Ben Montgomery's pale skin afforded him a white man's job with a white man's wages. It afforded his family a house on Louisville's Grand Avenue in an integrated neighborhood.
Powers remembers it as a street in transition.
Georgia's playmate, however, was a white girl who lived a few doors down. Powers and the girl played together, talked together and laughed together, but they didn't go to school together. Something else that baffled Powers was the time her father spent with his eight sons, she said. Seemed like boys always got more attention. Powers remembers wandering outside where her father would be tinkering on cars with her brothers.