Who is Mae, Alice, Sarah and Winnie? Sorry, long read

My favourite Mae story is how she double-booked herself on a date. Of course before she was married, she had been gifted a fur-stole from one suiter and agreed to see The Nat King Cole Trio with another. As Baltimore’s music scene was a small one, of course fur-stole guy would arrive to the club as she was being seated with her date. A quick thinker, she ducked under the tables and snuck out through the back! She dumped both, but still had the fur-stole to show her granddaughter after she found the love of her life, a World War I veteran who was part of a staged protest at his barracks because the coloured soldiers didn’t have the same access to reverends and showers as the white soldiers.