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A fascinating introduction to Alpha Kappa Alpha’s pioneering members - women who have been active, visionary barrier breakers, seizing every opportunity to make a difference throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This exhibit ensures that their empowering stories continue to inspire and are not left out of recorded history.

Far Western Region

First woman to manage a CBS television affiliate, WBNB in St. Thomas, Virgina Island. This pioneer later went to WNET-TV-Channel 13, New York, New York where she later became a corporate officer. She later became the author of The Sweeter the Juice.

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“But Little Grandmother did not keep in touch with her namesake, my mother, Margaret Morris. News about Will Morris's younger daughter reached the 'white' side through Mamie. They knew where she was, what she was doing, and who she was doing it with. Most important, they knew she had chosen to stay negro.
It is still a matter of speculation as to why my mother's father or one of her much older brothers or her sister did not keep in touch with her and her younger brother. Over the years, Aunt Mamie and my mother's various guardians supplied different explanations. The times were hard. They were bad for mulattoes and worse for 'real' Negroes. There was little money around. Her father drank, drifted and could not keep jobs. Her teenage siblings could barely keep jobs ...... She was too dark, revealing both the Negro and swarthy Italian strains of her ancestry. Her color would give them away in their new white settings.
All of these reasons were plausible. None of them sufficed. None could take away the pain, the anger, the isolation, the questions.”
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tags: mulattoes, negroes, shirlee-taylor-haizlip, the-sweeter-the-juice

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