MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, July 3/4, 2012
The lead illustration serves better than an excerpt:

Caption: Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelly, left, and Olivia Cousins, members of a new Queens chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
(Photo credit: Chester Higgins, Jr/.New York Times)