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When Mary Adeline Hawkins was born in , in South Carolina, United States, her father, Orvey C Hawkins, was 21 and her mother, Louisa Jane Blanton, was She had at least 1 son and 6 daughters with Rev John Pinkney Whelchel. She lived in Cherokee Township, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States in and Limestone Township, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States in She died on 6 May , at the age of 57, and was buried in Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery, Gaffney, Cherokee, South Carolina, United States.
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Larycia Hawkins
Larycia Hawkins, PhD, is a scholar, a political science professor, and activist. In a December 10, , Facebook post, she declared her intention to don a hijab in embodied solidarity with Muslim sisters throughout the Christian season of Advent. The post initiated a national and international conversation about the nature of God and the possibilities for multifaith solidarity in a time where Islamaphobia, xenophobia, religiously-motivated hate crimes, and racism are more prolific than any time in history. The Rev. Jesse Jackson has called Larycia Hawkins, PhD, a modern-day Rosa Parks.
At the time of her activism, Doc Hawk (as her students called her) was associate professor of political science at Wheaton College (IL), where she was the first black woman to receive tenure in the history of the university founded in by abolitionists. Two months following the commencement of her embodied solidarity with Muslim women, she and Wheaton College, a Christian university, “parted ways.”
Her research confronts the most pressing questions of the day. She explores Donald Trump’s ascendance to office in the forthcoming book Trump, Tea Party Women, and the Rebirth of a White Christian Nation, by examining the cultural logics of evangelical Tea Party women, inclu