The meaning of ‘indifference’

Hello, experts!

How are you?

Hope you are having a good day.

Here I’m back with another question.

Would you read the following?

“She overcame people’s indifference related to her race.”

It might sound like nonsense, I have to say. But please bear with me.

What I’m struggling with is the part “people’s indifference related to her race.”

How does it sound? Could this mean :

1. that people didn’t care about her race?

2. that people didn’t pay attention to her because of her race?

Which one would it be?

I hope you could help me with this.

Thank you for reading.