Edna Griffin

She took a leap.

Edna Griffin had no assurances that the cat's deli sit-in was going to work.

Courage.

And like Esther, Reverend Mary and Edna were up against forces that were ready to destroy them.

And she was just a very gifted minister who couldn't vote, right? And was working, obviously, to address women's suffrage every day, but the disenfranchisement of half of America, you know, and the anxiety that that would produce, but then...

enough people hit a critical mass, or Edna Griffin, who was a member here in the 40s who let us sit in downtown in Des Moines because she couldn't get served food at that deli because she was black.

So there are examples of us already having collective action to address something.

And so my move to Iowa and then the realtor explaining, you're going to want to put in a reverse osmosis filter in your tap if you don't want to die immediately.