Grace Higginbotham

Biography
Grace Higginbotham is a 65-year-old racist woman who had came all the way down from Washington DC to Charlotte Phelan's house for her ceremony. Grace is shown as a kind and warm-hearted woman who is possibly friends with Charlotte and her family. Constantine Bates is shown serving some peas to Grace but she is slow. Grace is shown to be snobbish and rude to Constantine because she moves very slow and mostly because she is black. Rachel Bates, Constantine's daughter, comes to visit and surprise her mother but Charlotte slams the screen door on her. Rachel opens the door while the other women are shocked and stunned. Grace, stunned, stands up and forces Charlotte to make an unpleasant call. Charlotte demands Rachel and Constantine to leave. Grace does not like black people.