…y this idea is more amusing than true. I know that if the U.S. today is closer to its egalitarian ideals, that progress is due to the work of heroes like Eleanor Jackson Piel. * * * Some links— Today’s New York Times obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/us/eleanor-jackson-piel-dead.html; Video of a 2013 television interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTQ6zZd5iZQ A 2009 Berkeley Law profile: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/one-to…