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
AfterWords
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Published:April 2015
Poem about the transformative power of the Yoruba goddess Oyá which is connected to the spirit of insistent freedom in African American history, to Harriet Tubman’s sense of mission, and to the spirit of marronage (fierce, ancestral independence) in Rachel’s and Rosemarie’s lives.
Describes a talk that Rosemarie gave to one of Rachel’s African American studies classes, in which she discussed the love that forms the foundation of southern culture (black and white), the importance of gratitude and forgiveness, and people like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Clarence and Florence Jordan, Anne Braden and Will Campbell, who were important mentors to Rosemarie. The lesson Rosemarie leaves the students with is that none of us is better than anyone else and none of us is worse. We’re all human.
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