NOLA4Women: Rosa Freeman Keller: A White Ally That Fought Racism
Rosa Freeman Keller was born in New Orleans in 1911. A white heiress to a Coca-Cola bottling fortune, Keller could easily have chosen to live out her days quietly and comfortably in her Uptown home, with little social reflection. Instead, she used her finances and influence to launch a lifelong fight for racial equality in the city of New Orleans. Keller’s activism began when she was invited to join the New Orleans YWCA Board of Directors in 1945, filling the spot vacated by