[act-ma] 3/6 RICHARD KORITZ - "Two Brave Working Class Women Tested in a Time of Trial and Tribulation"

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THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...

Sunday, March 6, 2011
11:00am

Marking International Women's Day
RICHARD KORITZ
"Two Brave Working Class Women Tested in a Time of Trial and Tribulation: A
Legacy for Our Time"

In the summer of 1955, Sara Sue Koritz and her comrade Mary Walsh Carlson
took their four children to the Massachusetts State House to protest to
Governor Christian Herter the blacklisting of their husbands which prevented
these two men from earning a living for their families. Herter, a major
ruling class political force in the USA over many decades, also stood about
six foot six inches tall. Nevertheless, he and his closest advisers took off
on an elevator out the back way rather than have to face these two women.
Both Sara Sue and Mary had a rich history of courageous struggle for justice
before this event and long afterward as well. The moral of their story is
that their nobility came from their willingness to struggle for justice for
themselves and their husbands and families as well as for the oppressed and
exploited of the earth. Their lives richly deserve celebration-and
emulation.

Richard Koritz, proud son of Sara Sue, is a member of the North Carolina
Human Relations Commission, a member of the Board of Directors of the
International Civil Rights Center and Museum (which opened at the original
Woolworth's Building site of the Sit-in here in Greensboro on February 1,
2010) and an elected member of the State Executive Board of the National
Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO).

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NEXT WEEK'S COMMUNITY CHURCH FORUM (3/13)

GRACE ROSS
"Main Street Smarts:  Who Got Us Into this Economic Mess and How We Get
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