polly murry alter. introducer to her network at the presidents commission and the rest is history except for a couple years later, polly murry quit the organization which she helped to start because of a lack of diversity. she said it was not the organization she wished to help. she was looking beyond that. to a movement of multiple discriminations, against indigenous people, against people from other countries, against a class, race, and gender. and she was not going to -- >> sorry? >> half a century ago. >> half a century ago, exactly. so she was a pioneer of what is now being called intersectional feminism. >> right. next subject, the third section of the book is about the civil rights movement. obviously an enormous moment in american history. i wonder you might begin with a little bit of back story on this. the history of black men and their military service in this country. >> this isn't a chapter somewhat different, because it tries to rectify the imbalance between. well, it tries to minimize the