Well, I love little-known stories about famous people. If you look at Charlotte in Riding Freedom and Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson and Esperanza in Esperanza Rising, they’re all sort of kindred spirits in that they had really wonderful stories that deserve to be told…
Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt and, obviously, Amelia Earhart – they’re very strong, determined, courageous women. They defied convention at a time when a lot of the things that they wanted to do were not accepted by society.
