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Rose McGee

Golden Valley, Minnesota | 1919-Present

Rose McGee is Founder of Sweet Potato Comfort Pie: a catalyst for caring and building community. After the killing of young Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, she felt a calling to do something. So she loaded her car with about 30 sweet potato pies and drove to Ferguson.
After returning home to Minnesota, Rose McGee contacted her Mayor and said, "We need to do something proactive here because what happened in Ferguson can happen right here in our own community." So they created the MLK Holiday Weekend of Service when volunteers make the number of pies Dr. King's age would have been. Community members then gather, listen to each other, learn about race relations, and share stories about who to gift those pies to. Since Ferguson, Rose McGee has led people all over the country in making thousands of pies that are gifted into community. In 2022, 93 pies were made to recognize Dr. King's age. Pies were taken to Mother Emanuel AME after the killing of 9 Black people while worshipping and countless other places nationwide.

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