Ernestine Delois Eppenger, who used the pen name Ernestine Eckstein, began her activism as a Black student attending the mostly white Indiana University. She was a member, and then an officer in her senior year, of the NAACP. At that point, Eckstein didn't even consider herself a lesbian, mostly because she didn't encounter another openly queer person at the time. Read on »
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Ernestine Delois Eppenger, who used the pen name Ernestine Eckstein, began her activism as a Black student attending the mostly white Indiana University. She was a member, and then an officer in her senior year, of the NAACP. At that point, Eckstein didn't even consider herself a lesbian, mostly because she didn't encounter another openly queer person at the time. 
