Jo Ann Robinson, an English professor at Alabama State College, asked a colleague in her university for access to the mimeograph, a duplicating machine. Mimeographs do not create brilliant or glossy reproductions, but they work well enough, especially for typewritten material. Robinson typed up an announcement of the boycott.
This makes me well up wiith tears. Zeynep is recognizing the forgotten and underwritten heroes. These are the people who strive to push the platforms together and make things happen.
