Rolark Remembered As Worker's Champion

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

 

District civil rights activist Wilhelmina J. Rolark was “a champion of working people,” says Metro Washington Council Jos Williams. Rolark, who died last Tuesday of colon cancer at 89, was “the last of a breed of instinctively pro-worker politician we don't see much anymore,” added Williams, noting that the 4-term DC Council member was “a pioneer of pro-worker legislation.” Rolark was well-known as a key activist in the struggle for home rule in the District, but she also helped lead the battles to win Workers Comp, the minimum wage, unemployment compensation and other issues critical to working people. “She was one of the very few Council members who was always ready and willing to walk the picket-line with workers” says Williams. Read the Washington Post story, “D.C. Council Member, Home Rule Soldier Wilhelmina J. Rolark” online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021402117.html

 

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