Published inZORA·Mar 13, 2020Member-onlyWhat We Owe to the Black Women of This Powerful Civil Rights GroupTheir fearlessness is a lesson to us all — 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 education as a ticket…Sncc6 min readSncc6 min read