Sublime

Shirley's role during those years was like that of the wife of a CEO. She was a full partner in my career. Like most men of my generation, I saw providing for my family as a primary duty. I marvel at today's fathers. Even those in so-called high-powered positions often take an active role in the day-to-day operations of family life-something with w

Storer—which, according to the exhibition signage, was one of three historically Black colleges in West Virginia—was closed after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954. Its Blackness violated the prohibition of segregation. The other two are still open today, but have tiny numbers of Black students in attendance.

He was college president until 1973; he ran for the Senate in 1976, aged seventy, becoming a Republican for the first time.

Susan Cornelia Clarke Warren,

Eleanor quickly became the most popular girl in school. She excelled in French, German, and Italian, wrote superb essays, and made the first team in field hockey.

Southerner, Wilson had been president of Princeton, the only major northern university that flatly refused to admit blacks. He was an outspoken white supremacist—his wife was even worse—and told “darky” stories in cabinet meetings.

Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls “relentlessly pleasant.”22