Her chats with a black woman while attending the March on Washington to write a profile of James Baldwin open her mind to the prejudice encountered by black women in America and to her own complicity as a white woman. She subsequently joins a rally against illegal abortion, which prompts her to think on her own abortion, which she had just before starting her fellowship. Gloria becomes involved in activism after being moved by the tales of other women and understanding that magazines will not allow her to write the stories she wants. She meets Dorothy Pitman Hughes and Florence Kennedy, two…