by CARMEN SIERING For more than 40 years, Elizabeth Mitchell has been documenting African American history and correcting the white version of that history. “All those stories that tell us who we are—stories of exploration, freedom, slavery, and, of course, violence,” she says. “We hold on to those one-sided stories and pass them on from one generation to the next.” Born in Indianapolis in 1953, Mitchell has experienced that history. Her freshman year, she was one of 76 Black teenagers bused to Arlington High School. “It was the Black children who were inconvenienced, who had to travel at least an hour to the suburbs to integrate the schools,” she says.