'The Trouble with Henry'

"The only written history of Henry Kemps’ existence is his obituary," Anne Barajas Harp writes.

His life has been forgotten by all but a handful of family and friends. On paper, Henry was no one of particular importance—a deliveryman, a janitor, a colored man in a world that was starkly black and white. But he also was a man whose friendship and dignity inspired 30 boys to make an astounding act of loyalty, the memory of which is all but lost.

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