http://www.salon.com/news/2010/03/11/us_forgotten_lawmaker/index.html

"When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the White House.

"Three decades later, she froze to death at age 75, a solitary figure living in a rented house four miles from the gleaming Statehouse dome."

It's hard to understand the arc of some lives, but it's easy to understand the insensitivity of society.

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