Part 6: Honoring Women
- Part 1: Main Section
- Part 2: Health Resources
- Part 3: Reading List and Links to Resources
- Part 4: Media and Politics
- Part 5: Community Resources
- Part 6: Honoring Women
In Greater New Haven & In CT, we Have Many Women of Courage, Leadership & Positive Examples.
Elsie Cofield CT's Own Mother Teresa Now in her 80's, Elsie Cofield still conducts AIDS education classes & continues to make a positive difference in New Haven & in the country. Elsie Cofield changed how people with AIDS are treated. We are grateful for Elsie Cofield! |
More CT Female Leaders A woman of quiet
dignity, commitment & race. |
| Mother Teresa of So.
Central LA We Do Not Have to Be Rich & Powerful to Make a Positive Difference in Our Community! Charmaney Bayton lives in South Central Los Angeles in a one bedroom apartment. She offers safe haven to 60 children who are running from gangs, dodging bullets, or seeking refuge from drug-addicted parents. Read more about her in "The Covenant with Black America"- p56 |
Pick up a copy of: DEVOTION: A Journal of Cultural and Christian Perspectives Web site: www.devotionreader.com Email: info@devotionreader.com Phone: (203) 650-2268 Publisher: Lisa Monroe |
One of My Personal Heroes
Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer: An organizer of the Mississippi Freedom Party and party delegate, field secretary for SCNN and grass-roots organizer. Visit: www.ibiblio.org/sncc/hamer to learn more about this remarkable woman. Read the testimony of Mrs. Hamer. Learn about the Voices for Freedom Project. If you ever contemplate giving up when the going gets rough, go to this site first. Learn about the price paid for black people to be able to get an education and the right to vote! Fannie Lou Hamer, was known as the lady who was "sick and tired of being sick and tired." Born in Montgomery County, Mississippi, she was the granddaughter of slaves. Her family were sharecroppers - a position not that different from slavery. Hamer had 19 brothers and sisters. She was the youngest of the children. In 1962, when Mrs. Hamer was 44 years old, . She learned for the first time that African-Americans actually had a constitutional right to vote! Today, many Americans take the right to vote for granted and do not vote! |
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