Panel of American Women - List of Participants

I was asked on Facebook who some of the other women were who participated in the Raleigh Chapter of the Panel of American Women.  Here is the list that I have compiled from information I got from Mrs. Jackie Eisen (and the list is not complete).  They are in no particular order, but are listed by race or religion as my lists show (some lists didn't share that information).

Black - Cliff Wimberley, Barbara Bland, Sandra Hardy, Earle Blue, Carolyn Johnson, Cleo Carr, Dolores Walker, Nurry Johnson, Ann Heartley Hunt, Gwen Bailey, Celeste Beatty, Margaret Lockamy, Joan Silvey.

Catholic - Mary Bode, Pat Gessner, Linda Macior, Eileen Moran

Jewish - Jackie  Eisen, Sherry Tove, Harriet Jablonover, Lea Bolt, Sylvia Ruby, Jackie Schlesinger, Ellen Deutsch

WASP (White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant) - Bettye Martin, Bobbi Armstrong, Becky Basnight Toole, Lindsey Tate, Meta Ellington, Fran Myers, Barbara Parker, Ruth Steen, Pat Warner, Betty Adcock, Margot Maddox

These women were not...

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Panel of American Women

Panel of American Women

Many of you may have never heard of the Panel of American Women.  It was an organization started in Kansas City, MO, by Mrs. Esther Brown in 1958.  The panel that she was asked to moderate was to talk about prejudice.  The group of women talking was all white and just sat together and had a conversation.  Other people heard about it and wanted to host similar panels.  And that was where the panel had its beginning.  Eventually, the panels had 4 participants and a moderator. “Panels were made up of a Catholic, a Jew, a white Protestant, and a Negro and someone of another racial or religious minority in those areas where another exists.”

The panel was started in Raleigh, NC, by Mrs. Bettye Martin.  My mother, Cliffornia Wimberley, was one of the panelists as were other women in the community. (Mrs. Nurry Johnson, Mrs. Carolyn Johnson, Mrs. Gwen Bailey, Mrs. Celeste Beatty, Mrs. Barbara Bland, Mrs. Earle Blue, Ms....

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