When Sandy was five, her dad decided to move the family to Yorktown Heights, a quieter suburb with better schools, where his children could thrive.
This was the plan.
This was the dream.
The reality?
Not everything was sunny in suburbia.
There was a divide.
Sandy saw it and felt it.
At school, her teachers sometimes discouraged her.
They didn't believe a brown girl from BX could be top of her class in reading, math, and science.
But Sandy proved them wrong again and again. Why did they underestimate her?
The answer lay alongside the Bronx River Parkway, as pristine houses and picket fences gave way to bustling boulevards and brick buildings.
Traveling between two worlds, Sandy witnessed the gaps between wage-working and wealthy neighborhoods.
Yorktown wasn't better than Parkchester, but it had more resources.
inequity lit a spark of activism in Sandy that would later become a fire.
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