Today for #BlackHistoryMonth
, we're recognizing the founder of @EdnaMartinCtr, Edna Barnes Martin.pic.twitter.com/SX3BIMDQEY
Edna Mae Barnes was born into a southern migrant, working-class African American family in @VisitIndy in the early 1900's.
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Martin was a community
#activist & was inspired by the worsening conditions of her Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood to help local kids. -
After high school, she married Early Martin & started a daycare program with 2 children in an apartment she rented with her household money.
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In 1946,
@EdnaMartinCtr became a home mission of the@AmericanBaptist & was named for Martin in 1974 after her death. -
Today, the
@EdnaMartinCtr continues to serve our community w/ social services, child care, vocation training & job placement, to name a few. - 1 more reply
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