West Ashley Democrats to honor 3 women
By Robert Behre
The West Ashley Democrats plan to throw a picnic this month and also plan to honor former Charleston City Councilwoman Hilda Hutchinson Jefferson and the late attorney and human rights activist Conni Valentine Ackerman.
If you go
The Sept. 25 'Blue Jamboree' picnic is open to the public, and admission is $1. For more information call 843-225-1567 or e-mail westashleydemocrats@gmail.com.
Both will be presented with the inaugural Marjorie Amos-Frazier Pacesetter awards, named after the first woman elected to Charleston County Council and the first woman, first black and first non-legislator elected by the General Assembly to the S.C. Public Service Commission.
Amos-Frazier retired from the commission in 1993 and died in June at age 84.
Charleston County Councilwoman Colleen Condon will present the awards at the West Ashley Democrats' 'Blue Jamboree' picnic on Sept. 25. The event will be held at the park at 1 Windsor Drive in West Ashley.
While Amos-Frazier, Ackerman and Jefferson had different careers, they each played important roles in integrating the local political scene, racially and gender-wise.
'Over three decades beginning in the 1970s, these three women definitively changed the course of Charleston politics,' Condon said.
Reach Robert Behre at rbehre@postandcourier.com or 937-5771.
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