Join Area 6 Archivist Nancy K for a 2-part zoom presentation  highlighting Women in Early AA. This is an entertaining presentation including the story of Irma L, who came to AA in 1941 and stayed until she was “kicked out” by a small contingent of male AA members in LA. She later died of alcoholism. Jimmy M from Indiana got sober in 1948 and died in 2002 with about 54 years of continuous sobriety. She was known as the “First Lady of Black AA”.  The first Hispanic groups of AA started in New York and Mexico in the 1940s, and the first Spanish language pamphlet was translated by Francisca Gonzales, though credit was first given to her husband. First Nations member Wanda F got sober in the early 1940s in Chicago, and founded the first American Indian AA group (in Chicago).  Join to hear these stories and more!

 

 

Contact Dist 34 archive chair Jaimie to register: dist34archives@area72aa.org

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