In March, I traveled to Lehigh University to participate in a panel and dialogue called a “Revolutionary Sister Tea” along with co-panelists and activists Ericka Huggins, Sonya Sanchez and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. The panel also included black and Latina scholars Johanna Fernandez, Duchess Harris, and Robyn Spencer.
It was the first time I had ever met Joan Mulholland, though I knew her history. When I returned from the event, I talked about it with students and they all were surprised to find out that Ms. Mulholland is white.
When many young people hear “civil rights activist,” they think of Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks. An image of a white person does not automatically come to mind.
Her unlikely story is told in the documentary film An Ordinary Hero: The True Story of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland.
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