The Civil Rights Queen of Newhaven

In some ways, your book underscores a schism in a lot of black communities. among american born blacks and people who are from other places. Do you think she'd have been as successful as she was if her parents hadn't been ambitious west indians? Eh, that's a great question. I don't know that i've thought about it that way. But i can tell you that that sense of being special and different a and a striving working class people, was vitally important to her sense of self.