Illustrator Candace Jean Andersen was busy researching orcas for a children’s book when she came across a photo that stopped her in her tracks.
Andersen found an article and corresponding photo of a group of scientists at the 1971 International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia. Although mostly covered by the sea of predominantly White men, who are all listed by name, there’s an African American woman in the photo who is unidentified.
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