It’s Tell the Truth Tuesday!
I wrote a blog about Jamie Warner who is a member of a band named after her Mahaley Lancaster. He told me so many great things about her.
Lancaster ran for the Georgia legislature in 1926, the first woman to do so. She ran on a platform advocating roads and railroads into rural counties, public schools, and the passage of a law that mandated that doctors must deliver babies regardless of the family’s ability to pay fees. She did not win, but some of her ideas were eventually carried out.
Mayhayley Lancaster died May 22, 1955. In addition to her legal, political and educational activities, she was also described as a noted fortune teller, numbers runner and self-proclaimed “Oracle of the Ages”. She is buried in the cemetery at Caney Head Methodist Church.
Have a Bodacious and Miraculous Day!
