By now, you've seen the movie
The Great Debaters and you admired the character Samantha Booke portrayed by Jurnee Smollett. But did you know that Samantha Booke is really the story of Henrietta Bell Wells? Last week I did some research about Samantha which led me to Mrs. Wells. This morning I learned that Mrs. Wells is our Soror who is ill right now. She's also served as past president of Houston Alumnae chapter.
For some reason the
Houston Chronicle article won't open for me, but here is
another article from a closer source to Soror Wells.