I am a retired professor of history at the University of Minnesota where I taught the history of American women for 32 years.  I grew up in South Carolina in the 1950s and have vivid memories of the segregated world filled with "white only" signs on restaurants, water fountains, and restrooms and city busses where black people were forced to sit in the back.  As a child my parents were the only white people I knew who believed segregation was wrong.  It was a life-giving experience to join the civil rights movement during college in North Carolina.  My scholarship has focused on the links between social movements for racial justice and women's rights.  Glen's case is a product of a world I know, where racial hierarchy is enforced with violence inflicted both by the structures of public authority (courts, government) and everyday "rituals of humiliation."  As a southern white woman and a scholar I am constantly struck by what difficult and slow work it is to change patterns that are rooted in centuries of slavery, segregation. and economic inequality.  This case is close to my heart.