I wasn't familiar with her, so I looked her up and found she is 102!
She's quite the activist herself! I'm sure she'd love to be there!
In the 1960s, Morello was involved in the Civil Rights movement and the NAACP. She is a long-time activist for the Chicago Urban League. In 1964, she and her husband moved to Harlem, New York,[5] where she gave birth to their son, Tom.
Morello and Ngethe divorced when Tom was one year old in 1965.[4] Morello then moved with her son to Libertyville, Illinois, a small suburb north of Chicago. She took a job at Libertyville High School teaching social studies and US history.[1] In 1987, she quit her teaching job of twenty-two years and founded Parents for Rock and Rap,[6] an anti-censorship counterweight to Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center. She made three trips to the Soviet Union, through Siberia and Mongolia.
In 1991, Morello and many others battled against legislation being proposed in Congress titled Pornography Victims Compensation Act, numbered S. 983, or, later, S. 1521. The legislation was not enacted, in part because of grass-roots activism. On June 24, 1996, she received the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award[7] in Arts and Entertainment for her work with Parents for Rock and Rap.
In the fall of 1991, Morello began a volunteer teaching job at the Salvation Army[8] Rehabilitation Center in Waukegan, Illinois, where she taught adult literacy. She was involved in the Cuba Coalition in Chicago, which works toward lifting the U.S. embargo against Cuba.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Morello
As an aside, I didn't know Tom Morello's father was Kenyan.
Thomas Baptist Morello[6] was born on May 30, 1964,[7][8] in Harlem, New York City to parents Ngethe Njoroge and Mary Morello.[9][10] Morello, an only child, is the son of an American mother of Italian and Irish descent and a Kenyan Kikuyu father.
Morello's father participated in the Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960) and was Kenya's first ambassador to the United Nations.[12] Morello's paternal great-uncle, Jomo Kenyatta, was the first elected president of Kenya.[12] His aunt, Jemimah Gecaga, was the first woman to serve in the legislature of Kenya and his uncle Njoroge Mungai was a Kenyan Cabinet Minister, Member of Parliament and was considered one of the founding fathers of modern Kenya. Morello's parents met in August 1963 while attending a pro-democracy protest in Nairobi, Kenya.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Morello
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