The year was 1946; the second World War had ended and massive efforts to rebuild a post world war had begun. A call came through a Louisville home of a 71-year-old woman and granddaughter of an escaped slave, Emma Clarissa Clement. But she had left to a district church conference in Springfield, Ky, so her daughter took the message – Emma had just been elected American Mother of 1946 by the Golden Rule Foundation. Born in Providence, Emma went South to college, Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina, the largest school of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. “Emma Clement Walker, the youngest daughter, was an English professor at Tuskegee Institute.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 01, 2019 17:03 UTC