Beautifully written and quite true. Lugenia Burns Hope (the wife of Morehouse College and later Atlanta University president John Hope) did the same thing in Atlanta.
She and her Morehouse College students literally went door-to-door doing what DuBois did in Philadelphia. Because of her, roads were paved, street lights and working sewers were installed in Atlanta, along with the opening of daycare centers and an assortment of locations where citizens could take classes in every thing from dressmaking to carpentry.
When she died, she was cremated. They went to the top of a building at Morehouse and scattered her ashes East, West, North and South per her request that she be scattered to the 4 winds.
Beautifully written and quite true. Lugenia Burns Hope (the wife of Morehouse College and later Atlanta University president John Hope) did the same thing in Atlanta.
She and her Morehouse College students literally went door-to-door doing what DuBois did in Philadelphia. Because of her, roads were paved, street lights and working sewers were installed in Atlanta, along with the opening of daycare centers and an assortment of locations where citizens could take classes in every thing from dressmaking to carpentry.
When she died, she was cremated. They went to the top of a building at Morehouse and scattered her ashes East, West, North and South per her request that she be scattered to the 4 winds.
I’m going to be honest this writing thing is hard. this is not where I expected to be but it’s been a fun ride
Writing is never supposed to be easy. That is what all my English and History professors told me.
Writing is always a process of either building something or purging yourself of something.
Thank you for sharing this heroic and inspiring story of Lugenia Burns Hope.
Lugenia Burns Hope: Black Southern Reformer by Jacqueline Anne Rouse