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From pain to power: Ruthie Bolton finds purpose, strength in her struggles

By Greg Ostendorf
AuburnTigers.com

AUBURN, Ala. – "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

These are the famous words of Martin Luther King Jr., delivered to more than 200,000 demonstrators on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. This was also the message Ruthie Bolton heard time and time again from her father, Reverend Linwood Bolton, when she was growing up the 16th of 20 children in Lucedale, Mississippi.