 Food writer Donna Battle Pierce says knowing Fisher's story would have been incredibly empowering to her back in the early 1960s, when she was a young Black girl integrating her Columbia grade school. But Pierce only learned about Fisher in the 90s, when she happened to see Verna LaBoy playing the biscuit trailblazer on television. It's always, since then, made me feel how important it is to uncover these people.