title: Mothers in Charge - Faces of Courage
author: Multi-author
description: A book with a mission (profits going to the organization Mothers in Charge), this is a photo essay-style condemnation of violence, supplemented by the words of Philadelphia mothers who have lost children in random acts. Some of the victims were innocent, some on the wrong track, but all had mothers who deal with their grief every day. Dorothy Johnson-Speight's son was shot eight times over a parking space; watching the television news one night, she saw Ruth Donnelly pleading for information in the murder of her own son. The story sounded familiar to Dorothy, who founded Mothers in Charge in 2003, and when she went to meet Ruth they discovered that their sons were killed by the same man (who is now serving two life sentences). These ordinary women, whose lives have been forever altered, have bravely chosen to help others to break the cycle of violence by mentoring, teaching, visiting prisons, stopping the proliferation of handguns and offering support and counseling for family members. With an introduction by Susan Taylor, of Essence magazine, this is a heartfelt book; photos of each mom have a wrenching, resonant, "there but for the grace of God" kind of power. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended
  by the author.
  
  Text copyright © 2013 by Lori Brighton. All rights reserved.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or
  transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
  recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.
  
  Published by Montlake Romance  
  PO Box 400818  
  Las Vegas, NV 89140
  
  ISBN–13: 9781477848333  
  ISBN–10: 1477848339  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2013909620
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For my mother,  
  Your courage, compassion, and imagination are a constant source of
  inspiration.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  [Prologue](index_split_005.html#filepos3505)
  
  [Chapter 1](index_split_006.html#filepos36099)
  
  [Chapter 2](index_split_007.html#filepos64036)
  
  [Chapter 3](index_split_008.html#fil