A black and white photo of Ruby Brown as she leans over a kitty checking it's ears. She's wearing a white covering over her head and long white cover coat that looks like a nurses uniform.

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   KSHernandez (kshernandez@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 05:09:34 JST KSHernandez

   Day 6 #BlackHistoryMonth

   #CatsofMastodon #WhiskersWednesday #Caturday fam.

   Meet Ruth Brown

   The 1st Black woman in the U.S. to run a no-kill animal shelter. She ran the Peace Plantation, in Leesburg Virginia during Jim Crow south in 1950. Many frowned upon the decision to choose her as lead, because she was Black, but she still cared for the homeless animals there for 30 years being coined by it's founder as "the most caring person I know".

   Read more here: https://nhes.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Newletter-Death-of-Ruby-Brown-1984.pdf