Every summer during her childhood, Ruth Ann Schmitt saw injustice on the farm where she grew up.It was the 1950s and Schmitt’s family and their neighbors in western New York each had a shack on their properties for black migrant worker families who came each year to harvest fruit. Schmitt befriended the workers’ children and when she was 6 years old, ventured into a neighbor’s shack to see where they lived.The shack had no electricity, no running water and no toilet. It had a single mattress for a nine …