#teenietuesday #cmoastoryboard . “I knew she’d been reluctant to join the National Organization for Women—she was busy enough in the NAACP. But while black men and white women were advancing, she realized that when it came to issues like job opportunities, someone needed to speak up for black women in both organizations. She’d be that person.” . As a part of the Teenie Harris Essay Series, Kelli Stevens Kane reflects on conversations she’s had with the civil rights activist Alma Speed Fox, one of her grandmother’s friends and a revolutionary in the NAACP and NOW. Through anecdote and an acute personal history, Kane’s writing engages with Fox’s keystone question: “Why, after all this work, haven’t black people come further?” . blog.cmoa.org/2015/01/the-chronicle-of-alma-speed-fox . Image: Charles “Teenie” Harris, portrait of Alma Speed Fox, ca. 1970. Carnegie Museum of Art, Heinz Family Fund.