AdvertisementIt wasn’t until my 80th birthday, two years after she died in 2012, that our family saw the newly discovered image. Earlier that week I saw the billboard in Tallahassee using the same image of Patricia in a campaign by the Dream Defenders. The image of Patricia, with all of her relentless strength and determination, is a rallying cry that we must heed. After the 1960s, raising me and my two sisters, Johnita and Lydia, Mom was a leader in education and parents’ rights. Today, both of my parents have been inducted into the Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame.

Source: Washington Post April 16, 2021 10:30 UTC