Feminists

And when the members became old enough she passed it on to a friend and started one for the girl scouts. Our small town had cub scouts, webelos and a boy scout troop but nothing for the girls.

Now remember this was back in the very early 70's in Kentucky. All the girls in the troop were white so my mother went to the elementary school to see if she could get some African American girls to join and she did (and let me tell you this raised some eyebrows with the other mothers, mainly because of their husbands). My mother took all to task over this incident & even though some of the white girls were taken out of the troop, my mother in this small town got woman thinking what was best for their daughters & not their husbands.

My mother took a lot of abuse over this and she never gave up the fight to include all who wanted to join. Overtime my mother got woman thinking about what was right for them & their daughters and addressing something in this small town that was sorely needed.

My mother is a feminists and way back then she stood up for what was right no matter what the cost to her was (I would also like to add she instilled this into all of her boys as well).

Hope this story makes sense to the younger crowd here.

Cheers
Bill