HistoryMakers Founder Julieanna Richardson on The Intersections of Race & Gender

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Julieanna Richardson (b. 1954), historian and founder of HistoryMakers, says that before she worked for a black administration under Chicago’s Mayor Harold Washington (1983 – 1987), she wasn’t familiar with sexism. “I could only see the world in black and white and racism, I did not understand sexism at all … I’ve always felt that black females were at the bottom of the heap, that we got it from both sides, in many ways.”