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His wife, Isolde, an author and former magazine editor, added, "That's when you really see what it was like to be a woman—a wife and a mother—in that movement. If you think of all the other things that she went through, and the other friends she lost, the fact that her only child had been staying in that house not long before, was what had more of an impact than anything else." Isolde said that she's happy about the film because there's been so little attention paid to women in the civil rights movement. "I remember her telling me when I was pregnant with Hannah, that when she was pregnant with Joel was one of the most difficult times. The women at the NAACP legal defense fund thought it was completely inappropriate for a pregnant woman to be out in court, appearing in public in that way. There weren't any models for successfully being a black woman, and a wife, and a mother in that role."There weren't any models for successfully being a black woman, and a wife, and a mother in that role.
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