On the right is a picture of Tracy Sims. This picture is from the early 1960s when I was actively participating in the demonstrations for civil rights in San Francisco
I do not regret my activity in these demonstrations. It was a time when blacks were severely restricted from getting jobs and entering society as full members. These demonstrations were effective in creating jobs for competent blacks. I have thought about Tracy for over 50 years and thanks to Google I found that there was a picture of her and a story about her
Tracy was the dynamic force in San Francisco Civil Rights. She was smart she was competent and she was dynamic.
One day she disappeared and there were no new effective civil rights rallies after that. All of this time I have wondered what happened to her. She wrote a book that explains how she moved away from San Francisco and started a new life. I do not have the book but I will get it.
I seriously doubt that she explains the reason she left and changed her name. It is my guess that her life was threatened. Whether it was by other envious civil rights blacks or by some more sinister political force, I do not know.
This blog is to comment on the importance of one single supercompent black person in organizing civil rights at a critical point and a critical geographic location. San Francisco, whether anyone knows it or not, became the ground zero point for civil rights cases in education, police and fire departments as well as (my own case) in finance.
Tracy Sims deserves recognition and I give what little I can to her here .