The first time LaDonna Harris got involved in a civil rights issue, she was not fighting on behalf of her Comanche people, but for her black babysitter. In the early 1960s, in Lawton, Oklahoma, “our babysitter was picketing the local theater because African-Americans had to sit in the balcony,” she recalls. While LaDonna and her neighbors organized potluck dinners for the protestors, she had an epiphany: “Here I was working for integration for blacks, but what was I doing for my own com


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