Rosanell Eaton, ‘unsung’ defender of voting rights for African Americans, dies at 97

When Rosanell Eaton first registered to vote in 1942, she rode in a mule-drawn wagon to the county courthouse in North Carolina where she was greeted by three white men.

“What do you want, little girl?” one of them asked Eaton, who was African American and 21 years old.

Upon hearing what business…