![]() ![]() In her 60s, when most people consider retirement, Painter took another first step, this time into a new life as an artist. ![]() All along the way, there were people who were with me and who were shielding me and helping me along.” I couldn’t have gotten my first job if I hadn’t had people who were pulling for me. “I also always had people who were on my side. “People looking at you and wondering why you are there, interrupting you when you speak. ![]() “There’s this built-in level of hassle of being black in America, of being female in America, and of being black female in America,” she said. Black history and women’s history were emerging fields, and in the 1970s she realized she was uniquely suited to write about these topics.Īnd despite being a young black woman in a field dominated at that time by older white men, she had a support system and mentors who pushed her on. She forged her career alongside the Civil Rights Movement, which was changing the way history was being written. She taught history at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of North Carolina, and Princeton University. Raised in an educated household in Oakland, California, she holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Harvard University. For decades, Painter’s own next steps made perfect sense. ![]()
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