Gabrielle David, "Trailblazers: Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, American Firsts/American Icons" (2leaf Press, 2021)
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Is She My Favorite?
I think she is the true um i com when it comes to that, you know. She didn't come out wearing diamonds and wearing her hair whipped up. She came out there, you know, to speak. She sang or songs when he, when she spoke of hymns, or to elaborate her plaint m. So i think that black women don't strive to be a first. They became a first at a necessity, not because they wanted to be,. And that's why the activists, to me are so interesting.
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