Nannie Helen Burroughs

Ella J. Baker was another one who was very well-known in the civil rights movement and with SNCC and stuff, but she wasn't as well-known for her work with the Young Negroes Cooperative League and other co-op work.

Nannie Helen Burroughs, another woman known, if she was known, she was known for her civil rights, her women's rights, and her education work, and was revered in Washington, D.C., but not, again, for her co-op work and for the, uh, exemplary multi-stakeholder co-op that she started, Co- Cooperative Industries of D.C.

Uh, so it's given us a chance to really talk about the things even the co-op movement didn't know about or recognize as much before, and to see both the strength of, uh, Black women in the co-op movement, the strength of all these different kinds of, uh, Black co-op, that their, um, example is a representative of, right? So we're, we've been expanding the kinds of co-ops that get talked about as well as the kind of people who people see as cooperators.

So for me, it's, it's very exciting that we're in this moment, that we've got now a whole cadre of people in the Hall of Fame who help us to see and expand our understanding of what co-ops are, what co-ops can do, and who are the people that cooperate.