Homegrown Heroes

Race & Ethnicity

Rose Mayes

Mayes developed the Fair Housing Council of Riverside into a national model for combatting housing discrimination and devoting over 30 years of her life to community service, including being a co-founder of the Civil Rights Institute.

 

Homegrown Heroes

“We need to have a voice. We need to have a group of people talking about what some of these issues are in the community. . . . Just talking about it is not enough. We have to start doing something about it.”

– Rose Mayes

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