Former Rep. Kiah Morris along with current Rep Saudia LaMont, delivered remarks on how Bright has crafted the way for them to become publicly elected officials and an inspiration to African American women all across the state.
ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. — Saturday evening Emerge Vermont honored the late Louvenia Dorsey Bright who was the first African American to serve in the Vermont legislature.
Former Rep. Kiah Morris along with current Rep. Saudia LaMont delivered remarks on how Bright has crafted the way for them to become publicly elected officials and an inspiration to African American women all across the state.
Later in the night, state Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale accepted an honor on Bright’s behalf. The senator also announced a portrait in her honor will soon be made to hang up in the statehouse.
“This is going to be a place where particularly women and people of color can pause and think about how she kept it moving so that they could stand there and have a place to convene, have a place to contemplate their role and their rightful ownership of that statehouse as well,” said Hinsdale.
