Katrina died peacefully while a hurricane bearing her name was showing Americans how much liberty and justice poor folk had in New Orleans and in America. She had learned these years before. When the Equal Rights Amendment failed to pass, Katrina realized that she was a second-class citizen like every other woman in America. Her 17 years as an inner city Episcopal priest taught her that poverty limited how much liberty and justice one could get. In the Pledge of Allegiance Katrina always said, “With Liberty and Justice for Some.”
Justice was important in her family. Her great great uncle had been run out of antebellum Vicksburg for preaching abolition. Her grandfather founded an inner city mission in Cincinnati, Ohio and was later run out of Chelsea, Oklahoma for giving Holy Communion to a Black priest at the altar rail. George Swanson, William Swanson, and Helene de Boissiere founded Katrina’s Dream on the eve of her death to carry on Katrina’s dream of seeing the rights of women upheld by the law. More…
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