Doing a bit of research tonight and ran across this article from the December 19, 1896 edition of Freeman titled “The New Colored Woman: She is Fast Shaping the Destiny of a Prosperous Nation-a Strong Spirit of Unity Existing.” The article (below), written by Fannie Barrier Williams, recounted the creation of a new organization for black women, the National Association of Colored Women but its the writer’s optimism for the future which had me thinking about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and what it took to get where she is today. She’s not alone – I include my wife, Jackie; my mother and grandmother, both named Thelma; and a host of family and friends that I have known in that same category of women who continuously build a better society. They make things new.
Talk about a legacy of perseverance.
Todd Elliott, Writer 