Fannie Barrier WilliamsBorn shortly before the Civil War, activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams (1855 1944) became one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation. Hendricks shows how Williams became "raced" for the first time in early adulthood, when she became a teacher in Missouri and Washington, D. C., and faced the injustices of racism and the stark contrast between the lives of freed slaves and her own privileged upbringing in a