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May 22, 2024 Vol. 44, No. 47
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‘She returned kindness’ Remembering Harriette Robinet, mother, author and pioneer By KEN TRAINOR Staff Writer
Harriette Gillem Robinet’s father, an educator, required that his daughter pen something every day during her summer vacations while she was growing up. Publication came much later, in February 1968, with a Redbook magazine article titled, “I’m a Mother — Not a Pioneer,” number 89 in Redbook’s Young Mothers series. The latter part of the title is debatable, but we’ll return to that later. Robinet, an award-winning writer and civil rights activist, died May 17. She was 92. “Harriette Gillem Robinet’s life and work interacted as a divine gift to the many, many people who read and knew her,” Don Evans, an Oak Parker who founded the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame said after she died.
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