One rarely knows what the impact her actions will have on others. In the case of the WIMS women, the impact went beyond the Mississippi women whose lives they touched to their own children and grandchildren, creating a tradition of social activism.

• Holly Shulman remembers her mother, Polly Cowan
  Shulman is Polly Cowan’s daughter.
• Liza Cowan remembers her mother, Polly Cowan
  Cowan is Polly Cowan’s daughter
• Karen Ezelle Redhead remembers her grandmother, Miriam Ezelle
  Redhead is Miriam Ezelle’s grand daughter.
• Sylvia Weinberg History Interview by Amy Murrell
  Weinberg Radov talks about her grandson.
• January 24, 2003: Dorothy Height Oral History Interview by Holly Shulman
  Height talks about what WIMS means to the next generation of American young women.
• Fred Powledge Remembers Polly and Lou Cowan
  Fred Powledge was a young journalist who knew the Cowans.