She protected the daughters of two U.S. presidents
Besides doing mostly undercover and lower-paying duties, Flemister was assigned to protect Susan Ford, the teen daughter of President Gerald Ford, and also protected Amy Carter, President Jimmy Carter’s daughter. But thanks to racism, she left the service. Flemister recalled in an interview that a superior once told her that in order to get to higher positions within the agency, she would have to stop wearing her hair in an afro. Flemister agreed and was given protective duty but she soon realized that the agency was only using her to make others believe that it was “racially diverse”.
What also worried her was the n-word often used by her colleagues to describe suspects and even some African presidents. Flemister eventually left the Secret Service in 1978 and took a pay cut to join the Foreign Service.
