Each time, she thought I was asking for the first time. One evening, after weeks of gentle inquiries, she brought me a black-and-white photo. “That was my mom,” she said quietly.

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The organization that he began leading in 1963, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, had always been Black-led. But it also included white activists who did community organizing or ...