Mae Louise Miller

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Mae Louise Wall Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who had been kept in slavery near Gillsburg, Mississippi, and Kentwood, Louisiana, until her family achieved freedom in early 1963. Mae's story was unearthed when she spoke to historian Antoinette Harrell, who highlighted it in the short documentary The Untold Story: Slavery in the 20th Century (2009). The story inspired the 2022 film Alice. In 2003, Mae and all six of her siblings joined a federal class action lawsuit seeking reparations to descendants of enslaved people from several private companies with lawyer Deadria Farmer-Paellmann. Mae stated to NPR that "maybe I wasn't free, but maybe it can free somebody else. There's a lot of people out there that's really enslaved and don't know how to get out." In 2004, U.S. District Judge Charles Ronald Norgle Sr. dismissed the lawsuit.

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