“There were, of course, women who crashed glass ceilings, [Black people] and Native Americans and people of Asian heritage who pushed through “whites only” barriers. And their stories have been told in the obituary pages over many decades. “So why not more women and people of color on the obituary pages? (Why, for that matter, not more openly gay people, or transgender people?) “The larger answer: Because relatively few of them were allowed to make such a mark on society in their own time. Universities may have barred them. Businesses and political parties may have shut them out. The tables of power were crowded with white men; there were few seats for anyone else.” William McDonald New York Times Obituaries Editor
How the Overlooked project came to be.
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Overlooked No More
