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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  Copyright © 2016 Alicia Rades
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
  matter whatsoever without written permission from the author except in brief
  quotations used in articles and reviews.
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events
  or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by PaperPlane Publishing.
  
  
  Produced in the United States of America.
  
  
  Cover design by Clarissa Yeo.
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 978-0-9974862-0-9
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To my mother-in-law Deb, who constantly encourages and inspires.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0000_split_004.html#_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0000_split_005.html#_2)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0000_split_006.html#_3)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part