Sublime

Joe was an equity icon in my book because access was always on his mind.

the age of forty-four, Hamer set out to let her light shine when she became a member of SNCC, working alongside many of the activists who had played such a pivotal role in her entrance into the civil rights movement.

Jacaranda tried to focus on Janet Wilton but all she could remember other than that voice was that the woman was wearing ruby stud earrings. $1,200 Jacaranda called Janet Wilton collect as Janet had told her to. The following day, Jacaranda mailed an article she’d written that she thought maybe somebody might like to Janet.

Eleanor had no desire to become a ceremonial first lady, relegated to serving in her husband’s shadow. She had grown accustomed to a different role: teacher, writer, and political activist in her own right.

Belinda had attended Sidwell Friends School on scholarship during the Chelsea Clinton years and had been a dialect consultant for ten years’ worth of films featuring enslaved or Jim Crow–era Black people (suffice it to say, she was rarely out of work).