Life Story: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Life Story: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Quinn Dombrowski, Miss Major, June 29, 2014. By Quinn Dombrowski - https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/14560270363, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35247133 This video was created by the New-York Historical Society Teen Leaders in collaboration with the Untold project. Major Gracy was born in Chicago in the 1940s (she is unsure of her exact birth date). She grew up with her parents and her sister, Cookie. She added her mother’s maiden name, Griffin, as a tribute to her. She uses Miss Major as her first name. Miss Major was assigned male at birth. But growing up, she always felt more like a female. Her parents thought it was just a phase and that she
