Mae Mallory, Monroe Defense Committee, World Revolutions & Audrey Proctor Seniors /
Audrey Proctor Seniors- Center with GELE and beautiful smile
As I put the finishing touches on “Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions” I discover new things about my mother. I did not know that my mother Audrey Proctor Seniors image was in the Black History Museum in D.C. I also discovered her image in the Toni Morrison documentary. So here she is in all her glory in the center with her GELE and beautiful smile- Audrey Proctor Seniors, founder of the Monroe Defense Committee, Member of the Workers World Party, Youth Against War and Fascism, The New York Black Panthers, active supporter of the Grenadian Revolution, Brigadista for the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and observer of Free Elections in Namibia.
Audrey Proctor Seniors with GELE and beautiful smile, left side
Audrey Proctor Seniors in the Black History Museum & The Toni Morrison Documentary /
Audrey Proctor Seniors, Center
As I put the finishing touches on “Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions” I discover new things about my mother. I did not know that my mother Audrey Proctor Seniors image was in the Black History Museum in D.C. I also discovered her image in the Toni Morrison documentary. So here she is in all her glory in the center with her GELE and beautiful smile- Audrey Proctor Seniors, founder of the Monroe Defense Committee, Member of the Workers World Party, Youth Against War and Fascism, The New York Black Panthers, active supporter of the Grenadian Revolution, Brigadista for the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and observer of Free Elections in Namibia.
Black History Museum, Mother on Left with GELE
"Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions" Thoughts on Brooklyn Lectures /
Oh Man!!! I had the best time ever at St. Francis College and Brooklyn College giving the “Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions” Lectures. We my daughter Shakeila, my father Clarence Henry Seniors, and I pranced into Brooklyn, New York. We were early so we went to my alma mater Brooklyn Friends School and my classmate now the head of school Seth Phillips gave us a tour!!!! Looks exactly the same on the outside, but VERY DIFFERENT on the inside.The “Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions” lectures are in anticipation of my upcoming book of the same name coming out in six months, published by University of Georgia. My friend Dr. Robyn C. Spencer is the Visiting Endowed Chair in Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and Visiting Associate Professor in History. She is the author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party of Oakland. Dr. Spencer invited me to Brooklyn College.
My other friend Dr. Sara Rzeszutek Associate Professor, Director, Women and Gender Studies Minor, Director, The Center of Women & Gender Studies and the author of James and Esther Cooper Jackson: A Story of Love and the Left in the Black Freedom Movement invited me to St. Francis College.
I had an absolutely wonderful experience at St. Francis College and Brooklyn College, I completely loved the whole experience. Pat Mallory, Shakeila’s auntie and Mae Mallory’s daughter, and Pat’s cousin Phyllis came to the talks and shared their remembrances. They were beautiful and wonderful.
Workers World Party and Monroe Defense Committee friends Mary, Joyce, Ruben, Ellen, were there in full force. My childhood friend Susie and Eva came to the talks. Eva took her beautiful fifteen year old daughter out of school to hear the talk!!!!
Ellen brought photos of us all as children. Sara, Hindi, Eric, and I in a pram, Sara, me, Eric, and Hindi in all two year old beauty. Ellen brought our nursery school graduation program from the J. Marjory Jackson Experimental Group. Come to find out my absolute favorite playwright Lynn Nottage graduated in our nursery school class!!! We were a biracial group of Black and white children born at the same time, with parents who bonded in the Trotskyist Maoist Workers World Party and The Monroe Defense Committee in the battle for Mae Mallory and the Monroe Defendants lives. Our parents committed themselves to social justice. We lived a charmed life of play, fun, activism, and the picket line. We were living the dream. These wonderful people were at my talks at Brooklyn College and St. Francis College. Our great friend Joan Gibbs of Medgar Evers College and the Center for Constitutional Rights came too. As did the fantastic singer and my friend of 100 year Miron Lockett.
My friend who I ADORE, Dr. Sonya Donaldson of New Jersey City University who writes about Afro Germans came !!!!
And the beautiful Dr. Prudence Cumberbatch, chair of Black Studies at Brooklyn College also came.
Safiya Bandele gave a beautiful poem "Warrior Woman" in honor of Mae Mallory.
The elders and the students were extraordinary and asked great questions. It was a wonderful homecoming. Paula Marie Seniors
Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions Talk at St. Francis College /
St. Francis College, March 12, 2019: Historian Dr. Paula Marie Seniors (Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Virginia Tech) discusses the 1961 case of self-defense advocate Mae Mallory and the Monroe Defense Committee.
Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions talk at Brooklyn College /
Brooklyn College, March 14, 2019 “Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions”
A lecture by Dr. Paula Marie Seniors, with Safiya Bandele performing “Warrior Woman-Spoken Word Inspired by Mae Mallory.
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2019
Time: 2:15-3:30
Location: Occidental Lounge, Student Center, Brooklyn College
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QUOTED BY JASMINE SANDERS IN “A BLACK LEGACY WRAPPED UP IN FUR,” THE NEW YORK TIMES /
QUOTED BY JASMINE SANDERS IN “A BLACK LEGACY WRAPPED UP IN FUR,” THE NEW YORK TIMES "But there is a sense among many black women that this broader, cultural disavowal of fur has coincided with our increased ability to purchase it. (Or as Paula Marie Seniors, a historian and professor of Africana studies at Virginia Tech, reported her mother saying: “As soon as black women could afford to buy mink coats, white society and white women said fur was all wrong, verboten, passé.”) For women like my mother and grandmother, my aunts and my sisters, a fur coat is more than a personal luxury item. It is an important investment."
"Mae Mallory, The Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions" /
Upcoming talks “Mae Mallory The Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions,” at St. Francis College on March 12, 2019 and Brooklyn College on March 14, 2019
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