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Yvonne Seon (née Reed, formerly Chappelle; born December 20, 1937) is an American professor, university administrator, and Unitarian Universalist minister. She specializes in African studies, African American studies, and government administration.
Jul 14, 2003 · Yvonne Seon describes how she met Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Congo; Yvonne Seon talks about the demonization of Patrice Lumumba by the United States press and government; Yvonne Seon talks about the uncertainty and violence surrounding Congolese Independence and Patrice Lumumba's assassination, pt. 1
#YvonneSeon #PatriceLumumba #DaveChappelle*March 13, 2015From The History Makers website:Born in Washington, D.C., on December 20, 1937, Yvonne Seon graduate...
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Mar 22, 2009 · The Rev. Yvonne Seon is the author of Totem Games: Poems in Search of African Identity. In 1981, she became the first African-American woman ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister.
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Aug 14, 2009 · Yvonne Seon didn’t set out to blaze new trails—which makes her achievements all the more impressive. “The legacy of racism in America is such that I was first at things that should have happened a long time before I did them,” says Seon, known as a pioneer in the academic field of black studies.
Sep 22, 2021 · In collaboration with 91.3-FM WYSO’s Eichelberger Center for Community Voices, the News is publishing excerpted transcripts from WYSO’s series “Loud As the Rolling Sea,” which preserves and highlights voices from a generation of African Americans in Yellow Springs who were the civil rights activists of their day.
Rev. Dr. Yvonne Seon is a trailblazer in the development of African American studies curricula, and the first African American woman ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister. She was born Yvonne Reed on December 20, 1937, in Washington, District of Columbia, and was salutatorian of her graduating class at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School.
