This is an edited excerpt from my mater’s thesis, originally published by Baylor Line Magazine in Fall 2019
How a student editor challenged segregation on the front page of the Lariat
Ella Wall Prichard’s voice has a high pitch. Her gait is the stride of a woman with a purpose. She is always smiling, always dressed elegantly, always ready to help.
Meeting Prichard in passing, she may not strike you as someone whose life has been spent speaking truth to power, but give her a minute and she will change your mind. She is able to make you care deeply about the issues in her heart.
But when you give Prichard a pen that is when things really light up.
With a pen Prichard can change an entire university. She has done it before in just 140 words.
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