Moving On

This chapter discusses Sarah Keys’s life after the ICC decision, when she worked as a hairstylist in Brooklyn and married George Evans in 1958, becoming Sarah Keys Evans. She didn’t have children of her own but was close to her many family members. No major books on civil rights history featured her ICC victory, but it became better known after the Military Women’s Memorial installed a plaque about her in 1998, leading to her receiving a Trailblazer Award from the US Department of Justice in 2006. The chapter describes others who began learning her story. Excerpts are included from a talk she gave in 2017 at a New Jersey high school. Her North Carolina hometown featured her in a 2016 celebration of the history of the Catholic church there and named a street for her. The chapter ends by saying soon Roanoke Rapids would remember her, too.