“One of Vickie Oldham’s earliest memories is watching her grandmother don her white dress and purple-tasseled fez for her lodge meeting at the Evening Star, a black social and benevolent organization that helped fill a gap in social services. It’s a memory that Oldham fully appreciates now that she has led the initiative Newtown Alive to compile, organize and package the history of Newtown, the historically black neighborhood of Sarasota in which she grew up.”
Read more from this Sarasota Magazine article about the 2018 Unity Awards:
https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/articles/2018/1/23/vickie-oldham-newtown-alive
