Tamara Lucas Copeland describes herself as “a child of the South” with a unique personal vantage point for issues of racial equity. She is the former president of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers, where she established the groundbreaking Putting Racism on the Table program, and also led Voices for America’s Children, the National Health & Education Consortium, and the Infant Mortality Initiative of Southern Governors’ Association and Southern Legislative Conference. Her book, Daughters of the Dream: Eight Girls from Richmond Who Grew Up in the Civil Rights Era, was inspired by her mother’s determination to document her family as well as her friends’ realization of the importance of their five-plus decades-long friendship.

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