Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering
Rosemarie Freeney Harding (1930–2004) was an organizer, teacher, social worker, and cofounder of Mennonite House, an early integrated community center in Atlanta. She also cofounded the Veterans of Hope Project at the Iliff School of Theology.
Rachel Elizabeth Harding, daughter of Rosemarie Freeney Harding and Vincent Harding, is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Spiritual Traditions in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Denver, and author of A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness.
Rosemarie Freeney Harding (1930–2004) was an organizer, teacher, social worker, and cofounder of Mennonite House, an early integrated community center in Atlanta. She also cofounded the Veterans of Hope Project at the Iliff School of Theology.
Rachel Elizabeth Harding, daughter of Rosemarie Freeney Harding and Vincent Harding, is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Spiritual Traditions in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Denver, and author of A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness.
There Was a Tree in Starkville
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Published:April 2015
Recounts Rosemarie’s parents’ mixed reaction when she and her husband decided to move to Georgia (which the family had left in the 1920s, before Rosemarie was born). The chapter details the violence that sent the family north during the Great Migration, the sense of homecoming Rosemarie experienced when she returned in the early 1960s, and the civil rights work and movement colleagues Rosemarie joined in the South.
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