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Biography History Nonfiction

My Mother Was a Man (Ebony Magazine)

By Willie Sabb, 1953

“Philadelphia steelworker tells intimate story of how he was reared by Georgia Black, the man who lived as a woman for 30 years in Florida.”

Describes Willie Sabb’s mother, Georgia Black, a trans woman featured in Black on Both Sides (Snorton) and Before Gender (Erlick).

This PDF is the full issue. The article is featured on pages 75-82.

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