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A Black Matriarch: Remembering Frances Summers

A Black Matriarch: Remembering Frances Summers

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“A Black Matriarch: Remembering Frances Summers”

This episode is a personal one.I talk about my grandmother, Frances Summers, a Black woman who grew up in the brutally racist Jim Crow South before eventually escaping to Baltimore to build a better life and start a family. A decent family with good people. She would often talk about meeting my grandfather and how, from that point forward, life became good to her.But this episode is bigger than one person.It’s about a generation of Black women who survived segregation, racism, poverty, and disenfranchisement while still finding a way to build strong families and communities.

My grandmother believed deeply in voting and civic participation. She worked at the voting polls helping people exercise what so many fought and died for: the right to vote.Today, as parts of the Voting Rights Act continue to be stripped away and many Black communities once again face disenfranchisement, I reflect on what that struggle meant to her and what it should mean to us now.This is an episode about memory, survival, family, dignity, and legacy.

This is for my Grandmother Frances Summers.

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