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WASHINGTONSTAR NEWS
September $6, 1974 pg. D-2ft ~ By Jacqueline Trescott
Star-News Staff WriterFour contemporary
F black women - a nun, a
congresswoman, a welfare
rights mother and a
human relations specialist
m en - were honored last night
as embodying the spirit,
especially "dignity and
forthrightness," of So-
te journer Truth, a 19th cen-
tury black spokeswoman.
Honored by the Black
WOMEN'S Community
Development Foundation
Uth at the first Sojourner Truth
Awards dinner, were Rep.
Barbara Jordan, 'D-Tex.;
Sister Mary Shawn Cope-
- land, director of the Na-
tional Black Sisters Con-
ference; Mrs. Annie
Smart, a National WelfareRights Organization leader
from Baton Rouge, La.;
and Mrs. Ruth Bates
Harris, recently reinstated
as deputy administrator at
the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.
The recipients were
chosen from over f25 pub-
lic nominations, who in the
words of the foundation's
president, attorney Jean
Fairfax, "challenged the
stereotype that black folks
can't get it together."
Many of the other nomi-
nees attended the dinner at
the Mayflower Hotel, in-
cluding Beulah Sanders, a
nationally known welfare
rights activists, who suffer-
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ceremonies and was taken
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Most of the evening was
very tranquil and low-
keyed, with many of the
350 guests table-hopping
and hugging people they
knew. Honoree Annie
Smart, who has 13 children
and 17 grandchildren, ran
unsuccessfully in the
Louisiana primary against
Sen. Russell Long earlier
this year. She says she's
ready to try again, "be-
cause I saw a lot of
changes in the South. In
1969, Sen. Long called me
and the other welfare
mothers broodmares, in
1970, he called us bums.
But when I saw him during
the campaign he said
'Hello Mrs. Smart,' and
that's progress."
After a turkey dinner
and a dramatization of So-
journer Truth's life by
Glory Van Scott and
Wayne Davis, the honorees
were given a two-foot high
statue by Inge Hardison, a
black woman sculptor.
Every Terry, a staff
assistant for Rep. Jordan,
accepted for the congress-
woman, who is in China.
The evening's emcee,
Godfrey Cambridge, re-
marked, "black women
are not honored enough.
You have been the back-
bone of everything. You
started so many things.
Why, Rosa Parks' feet hurt
and she started a revolu-
tion. And you have pushed
us into middle-class,
which isn't a bad place to
be. Instead of colds, we
now have allergies."
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