💁🏾‍♀️(Submitted by Janecia O. ’19)
🧑🏾‍💼 Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1935.
🧑🏾‍💼Attended Spelman College
🧑🏾‍💼By the early 1960s, Mrs. Brayboy began working with organizations dedicated to registering black Atlantans to vote
🧑🏾‍💼In 1962 she started working with the All Citizen Registration Committee and the Voter Education Project sponsored by the SCLC.
🧑🏾‍💼 In 1964, she became one of the first black deputy registrars in Atlanta.
🧑🏾‍💼Started working as a Neighborhood Analyst for the Community Council of Atlanta from 1965-1972.
🧑🏾‍💼 Served as a Congressional aide to Representative Andrew Young from the year 1973-1976
🧑🏾‍💼 Became a consultant to ACTION in 1977 and later a consultant to MARTA, to the Atlanta University School of Library, and Information Studies.
🧑🏾‍💼Served as a member of the Martin Luther King State Holiday Commission from 1985 till 1991.
🧑🏾‍💼Helped place voter registration in the Atlanta Public Library system.
🧑🏾‍💼Helped get Booker T. Washington High School placed on the National Register of Historic Places
🧑🏾‍💼Served on many boards including Fulton County Family and Children Services; Wesley Homes; and Ebenezer Baptist Church Day Care Center for the Elderly.
🧑🏾‍💼 Mrs. Brayboy was a member of the Fulton County Council on Aging where she worked with elderly persons assisting them with applying for benefits as well as advocating for a senior citizens facility to be built by Grady hospital in Atlanta.
🧑🏾‍💼In March of 1995, Mrs. Brayboy worked as the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change where she ultimately retired.
🧑🏾‍💼Mrs. Brayboy’s activism led her to be considered as the “Godmother of Voter Registration”
🧑🏾‍💼In 2019, the Ella Mae Wade Brayboy Park in Atlanta, GA was posthumously dedicated to her.

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Sources: AJC, Fox5Atlanta, Mrs. Brayboy’s Obituary, Neighborhood Portraits: Men and Women Who Built and Inspired Our Community