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Kennedy, Florynce Rae “Flo” (11 February 1916–23 December 2000), black feminist, attorney, and activist  

Rhaisa K. Williams

Kennedy, Florynce Rae “Flo” (11 February 1916–23 December 2000), black feminist, attorney, and activist, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the second of five daughters of Wiley Kennedy, a headwaiter, and Zella Jackman. In Kennedy’s published memoir Color Me Flo, she wrote that her father worked as a Pullman porter, a very prestigious job for African American men to hold during the early- to mid-twentieth century. However, the Pullman porter registry contains no evidence of Wiley Kennedy’s employment....