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Remembering Henri Jane

Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 11:42 in children, woman, girls, divorce, white, mother, Barack Obama, chicago, single mother, black woman, mama, election night

by L. SaqiidLaura Wheeler Waring (1887 - 1948) "Anne Washington Derry," Oil on canvas 1927Have I ever told you about Henri Jane? She was our second mother. A black woman; a single mother whose only child, a son, succumb to cancer at 40. She was absol...