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In 1952, DAR reversed its "white performers only" policy. [34] Commemorative plaque honoring Lena Santos Ferguson at DAR Constitution Hall. In 1977, Karen Batchelor Farmer (now Karen Batchelor) from Detroit, was admitted to the Ezra Parker Chapter in Royal Oak, Michigan as the first known DAR African American member. [35]
Wright was born and raised in Georgia. [1] She is the daughter of Charles Benjamin Rouse Sr. and Wauneithe Mitchell Rouse. [2] Her father, a Korean War veteran, was a recipient of the Good Conduct Medal, the China Service Medal, the Navy Occupation Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal Korea, and the Korean Service Medal with six stars.
Dar'shun Nicole Kendrick [1] (born August 28, 1982 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American attorney and a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, representing the 95th district; she previously represented the 94th and 93rd districts.
Sep. 9—Ten members of the Chimney Hill chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution have "adopted" residents of the Sulphur Veterans Center. Each member of the DAR group is paired with a ...
The DAR Good Citizens from both high schools will be recognized at a 6 p.m. Awards Banquet on Tuesday, March 12, at the First Baptist Church, 1515 20th St., Bedford.
For example, a formal tea party hosted on December 19, 1971, by the Alhambra San Gabriel Society of the CAR was covered in the News-Herald and Journal Green Sheet on December 19, 1971, featuring Mrs. Alvin Willard Kirkham, a member of the DAR and her granddaughter, Karen Earle Lile who at the age of 12 was noted in the paper as one of the ...
Presley Merritt Wagoner, 40th President General of the DAR; Eva Ingersoll Wakefield (1892–1970), writer and poet; Margaret Anderson Watts (1832–1905), social reformer; May Rogers Webster (1873–1938), naturalist; Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1845–1928), writer and historian; Helen M. Winslow (1851–1938), editor, author, publisher, and ...
In 2012, Williams-Cole attended the DAR's Continental Congress in Washington, D.C. [4] In September 2016, Williams-Cole donated an oil painting depicting African-American descendants of American patriots as their Revolutionary War ancestors to the Isaac Carter Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution . [ 2 ]