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
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
The Dharamsala Notebook
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Published:April 2015
A short poem from Rosemarie’s visit to India.
Describes Rosemarie’s experience in India—specifically, in Dharamsala, where she studied with Tibetan Buddhist lamas and met the Dalai Lama for the second time. She talks about what it was like to be an African American woman in India, and of similarities between the lessons she learned from the lamas and those she’d learned from her mother and from colleagues/mentors in the freedom movement.
A short collection of notes from Rosemarie’s time in India: partly quotations from the lamas’ speeches/lectures, and partly memories of her mother that surfaced while she was attending these talks.
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