 But she had a whole history before that. And one of the things I talk about in the book is people who had a history before they show up in my book. William Marshall, Blackula. He had done Black stage stuff for 20 years before he was Blackula. Zara Culley, Mother Jefferson on Jeffersons. She had spent 50 years as the foremost authority on dictation and elocution. Black people came to her to learn how to speak.