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Services Scheduled for Senator Gwendolyn Britt
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Sen. Gwendolyn
Britt 1941 –
2008
The Wake has been set for 9:00 a.m. Friday, January 18, 2008,
The funeral will take place at 11:00 a.m. on the same day.
Mississippi Freedom Rider
Prince George’s County Activist
Maryland State
Senator
A
statement from Michael Cryor, Chair of the
Maryland Democratic
Party
“It seems we are
losing far too many of our important and
treasured civil rights leaders in recent years
and we are greatly sadden to lose yet another,
Senator Gwendolyn Britt.
In 2003 Gwendolyn Britt
brought decades of significant accomplishment
on behalf of equality and justice to the
Maryland Senate where her work continued. She
was preparing once again to engage those very
same issues in
2008.
She will be missed and remembered as a woman of quiet confidence and endless positive energy born from a strong belief in the dignity of each individual. As tragic as this loss is to her family, friends and the people she represented, Gwendolyn Britt’s spirit will remain in the Maryland State House. She is an example of how to forge progress and promote righteousness without animosity in your heart.”
A statement from Terry L. Speigner, Chair of the Prince George's County Democratic Central Committee
"Senator Britt was a great friend and a
tremendous leader of and for
Whether being a Freedom Rider fighting Jim Crow laws in Mississippi, where she spent 40 days in jail for sitting in a whites-only train station waiting room in 1961 or, being the lead Senate sponsor of a bill last year to grant voting rights to ex-felons, Senator Britt was a great leader."
Civil Rights Activist, Legislative Force