(January 15, 2023) Author Ida E. Jones, a MWHC board member, reveals the story of the remarkable civic leader, Victorine Q. Adams and her crusade for equity for all people in Baltimore.
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mwhc-author-talk-victorine-q-adams-baltimore-civil-rights-leader-tickets-514918835097
Mrs. Adams was a Baltimore native and the first African American woman elected to the city council. Born in 1912, she lived through stringent segregation, racial violence and economic turbulence.
Educated at Morgan State and Coppin State Universities, she took to the classroom and enriched the lives of her students. In 1946, she founded the Colored Women’s Democratic Campaign Committee to educate African American women about the vote and the power of the ballot box. In concert with fellow educators Mary McLeod Bethune, Kate Sheppard and Dr. Delores Hunt, she persisted in educating and empowering voters throughout her life.
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mwhc-author-talk-victorine-q-adams-baltimore-civil-rights-leader-tickets-514918835097
Zoom link provided by email to attendees on Monday February 6, 2023.
