UNDAUNTED BY THE FIGHT

A Tribute to Legacy

INTRODUCTION BY ENIAFE ISIS ADEWALE

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For the first time since its launch in 2011, Sucré Couture has gone blue. Blue like the ocean blue. Blue like a clear blue sky. Blue like rhythm and blues. Author Imani Perry, in her book Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, writes, “Blue is a portal. Our ancestors have worked so hard from the other side to keep us going; this is how we tend to them in return.” Sucré going blue is an act of tending to memory. Remembering the safe havens created by those who have loved us fiercely.

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“Through years of toil and pain
May thy dear walls remain
Beacons of heavenly light
Undaunted by the fight”

Inspired by a notable line from the Spelman Hymn, and blue representing deep sisterhood, spirit, and legacy, “Undaunted By The Fight,” is a jewelry collection and first-time collaboration between Sucré and the National Alumnae Association of Spelman College (NAASC). The collection draws inspiration from a legacy founded 145 years ago. A legacy rooted in determination, perseverance, and an unwavering commitment to progress. Legacy, unlike inheritance, isn’t always thought of as being tangible, but legacy is something we can carry, uphold, and make real through our actions: what we do, what we choose, and sometimes what we refuse.

Refusal, and the freedom and right to say no, has always been just as significant as the freedom and right to say yes. Refusal is what Claudette Colvin chose when she refused orders to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Refusal is what Ezell Blair Jr, Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, David L. Richmond, the Greensborough Four, chose when they refused to move from the “White Only” seats at the Woolworths lunch counter. Refusal is what Billie Holiday chose when she refused to yield to fear tactics and intimidation and continued to sing and perform Strange Fruit. And refusal is what Spelman alumna Marian Wright Edelman, Herchelle Sullivan Challenor, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Georgianne Thomas, and many others chose when they refused to sit on the sidelines of the Civil Rights Movement and instead became front-line activists, organizers, and movement leaders. It is because these young women and men chose to not move, not leave, not shut up, give in, or give up that monumental progress was made.

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“As a freshman Spelmanite in 1960, Georgianne Thomas, then 18, was so committed to the Atlanta Student Movement that not even the burn of a klansman’s cigarette being pressed into her skin could make her lose her cool or deter her from protesting segregation.”


– 2025 Capital B Atlanta, ‘MLK and Me: How a Young Freedom Fighter Helped Integrate Atlanta’

What is it that we refuse to give up? Not just for ourselves but for others, for family, for community, for future progress that we may not see, but are presently helping to create. In a system and society still intent on displacing, silencing, and taking, deciding what we refuse to dismiss, accept, give into, or give up is what can push us to decide what we will fight for, what we will protect, what we will save, and what we will commit to change.

Every collection at Sucré Couture is an act of unapologetic, provocative, and raw storytelling—an homage to Black culture in all its glory. The ‘Undaunted By The Fight’ collection is a tribute to a legacy of women fearless, determined and unapologetic in their being. This collection is also a reminder that there is still work to be done, more paths to be paved, and we are the ones to do it.