Edith Renfrow Smith, pioneer and witness to history, dies at 111

Renfrow Smith in her cap and gown the day she graduated from Grinnell College in 1937.

Last year, for Black History Month, NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Edith Renfrow Smith of Chicago, who has died at 111 years old.

(Image credit: Edith Renfrow Smith family collection)