"Mmhm. And lunch counters and hotels--pretty much everythin' public. No more separate drinkin' fountains. No more Jim Crow cars. If-- do you know what those are? Since you're at least as much from the future as Eddie was--my late husband, not the mentor--and he didn't know, but he was white and, well... not all that well educated."

There was, after all, a reason Susannah had been privately educated instead of been entrusted to the whims of the New York public school system, besides her father's money.