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Transcription: [00:10:00]
{SPEAKER name="Faith Ringgold"}
[[on her face]] there.

[00:10:03]
Um, every Christmas she would take some of her models -- and here she is with two models, my sister is in the second from the left -- and they would go to Harlem Hospital, and give to the children's ward there,

[00:10:22]
and they would go to two wards-- they would go to the ward with the old people, and the one with the children, and they would give out gifts, small gifts, and they would give a small fashion show, to the older people.

[00:10:38]
And every year mother would do that-- she had a tremendous sense of duty to the community.

[00:10:45]
She would also um, she was excellent at managing money in the house, but in her business she often felt that when she had a fashion show she should share the proceeds with some camp or some other charitable organization.

[00:11:09]
That's her to the far right.

[00:11:15]
Now here she is -- I'm down in the lower left hand corner and um, you can see I'm a little embarrassed there again -- she's [[laughs]], she's just too much for me I guess [[laughs]].

[00:11:31]
She's standing up there um, I don't know, talking about something with Barbara Mayo who was a hat designer who used to give shows with my mother and Anne Hedgeman who was, is, a very famous community person and politician, uh, still active in the Harlem community.

Transcription Notes:
Anna Arnold Hedgeman