John’s Island Post Acute will be hosting their Holiday Dinner And Dedication To Hermina B. Traeye tomorrow evening, December 1st, at 5pm at 3647 Maybank Highway.
Ms. Traeye was an avid civil rights activist, community leader, advocate for the oppressed, champion for social justice and racial equality, caregiver to the needy and loving mother.
She was active in the civil rights movement during the 1960s and early 1970s. She worked with Septima Clark, Esau Jenkins, Mary Moultrie, Bernice Robinson, Bill Saunders, Lonnie Hamilton, Reverend McKinley Washington, Andrew Young, Doctor Martin Luther King Junior, and Jesse Jackson.
Ms. Traeye was involved in the 1199-B Hospital Workers Strike, a movement that would help African American nurses and other workers to receive the proper pay, respect, and recognition they deserved.
Hermina was actively involved in a variety of civic organizations that were established by the late Esau Jenkins including the C.O. Federal Credit Union, the Rural Mission Health Planning Program, chartered as the Sea Island Comprehensive Health Care Corporation (SICHCC), and many other businesses.
Her diligent efforts were instrumental in non-violent protests to end segregation and discrimination against African Americans in companies like Woolworth, Kress, and other businesses in downtown Charleston. Those efforts extended to the Charleston County School District providing school buses for African American children in multiple areas.
The John’s Island Post Acute is a 132-bed facility that has been providing unparalleled rehabilitation services centered around the individual needs of each patient for 22 years, according to their website.
