Georgia Blackmon of Mother Wit. Ms. Blackmon has been an active part of this community in multiple ways all her life, currently heading an organization-The Gathering Awareness and Book Center-which is a gathering place in the Bellmont Devilliers neighborhood that provides community and educational support as well as Sunday School materials for many area churches.

The Fifth Sunday Plate offering today will benefit The Mother Wit Institute, also founded by Ms. Blackmon. Its current  project is the restoration of the Ella Jordan House, built in 1890, to be used as an African American museum. Ella Jordan used the house for different activities, such as a teaching center for the black community and for young black women, for voter registrations and for the founding of the Colored Women’s Foundation. The museum will commemorate Ella Jordan’s and other African Americans’ impact in our community.