Lurma M. Rackley (born April 24, 1949)[1] is an American author, journalist and publicist.
In 1981, Petey Greene asked her to collaborate with him on his autobiography, recording audiotaped interviews with her shortly before his death.
[2] Active with her mother in Orangeburg, South Carolina during the Civil Rights Movement, Rackley was arrested sixteen times by the age of 13.
[3] Although an honors student,[3] at the age of 14, she was sentenced to seven years in reform school[4] because of her many arrests as part of the Orangeburg Freedom Movement.
She told her mother she couldn't stop when others were putting themselves on the line, so they reached a compromise that neither would picket if the other were in jail.
The Surrogate Court of New York ruled in December 2018 that the purported test did not count as proof and had no standing.