What We Owe to the Black Women of This Powerful Civil Rights Group
Their fearlessness is a lesson to us all
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6 min readMar 13, 2020
When Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons arrived at Spelman College as a freshman in 1962, the Memphis native carried the hopes and aspirations of an entire generation, for she was the first in her family to graduate high school. Simmons shared her parents’ lofty ideals about a college…
