Cookye Rutledge

A Quilted Life

History & Biography

“Decades before she was ‘Dr. Meeks,’ she was my dearest friend ‘Cathy.’ We met at Pepperdine and came of age together. We talked about boys, family, our future careers. But on the night of March 12, 1969, our world was shattered into pieces and our innocence stripped away. Reading this memoir will provide a true understanding of how my friend went from mild-mannered ‘Cathy’ to the beautiful, iron-willed, and fearless ‘pioneer of racial healing’—Dr. Catherine Meeks. Read with the knowledge that you, too, can evolve.”