Unbossed After All These Years

• By Casey Hynes
• Roll Call Staff
• Jan. 19, 2010, Midnight

There are many black leaders and feminists who have been credited with paving the way for Barack Obama’s and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s runs for the presidency. But there is one who often goes all but forgotten in those conversations, someone who made inroads in both areas and ran for the highest office long before Obama and Clinton had even set foot in the Senate.