Margaret Strickland Collins: Civil rights activist and “termite lady”

by Olivia Foster Rhoades

Olivia Foster Rhoades is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program at Harvard & is pursuing a concentration in STS at the Harvard Kennedy School. You can find her on Twitter as @OKFoster.

Cover image by GimpWorkshop from Pixabay.

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