The document summarizes SOC's 2017 Legacy Awards Retro Ball which inspired and challenged attendees. It highlights several award recipients and their legacies in community organizing, leadership, engagement, and unity. It encourages the reader to consider their own legacy and how they can impact the future through sharing their time, talents, and treasures to join SOC's legacy efforts.

1. Presents…

2. YOUR Legacy,
the FUTURE.

3. SOC’s 2017 Legacy Awards Retro Ball
inspired and challenged us.

4. YOUR Legacy,
the FUTURE.Carmen C. Cabrera
Lifetime
Salvador Sanchez
Grassroots Organizing
Ignace Indian Health Center
Building
Dr. Tony Báez
Leadership
Monica Lopez
Engagement
James E. Groppi
Unity
SOC’s 2017 Legacy Awards
Business Improvement Districts (BIDS)
Cesar E. Chavez Dr., Historic Mitchell St., Kinnickinnic River, Menomonee
Valley, Historic Hwy. 41/S. 27th St., Harbor District, and Crisol Corridor.

5. What is
YOUR legacy?

6. YOUR legacy lives on far beyond you.
Dr. Peggy Rozga, widow of James E. Groppi, accepts award.

7. YOUR legacy
is critical
Be the one, the one to say yes,
the unique one in the crowd
Be the one to vote, from smaller things like
next years theme – “The Future”…
Be the one to vote for bigger things - like
electing a School Board Director!

8. YOUR legacy is passed down through generations.
Latina leaders & allies meet with Lori de Leon, daughter of Dolores Huerta.

9. YOUR legacy can be a lifetime of impact
like Carmen’s pale pink shoes legacy.

10. What are YOUR
pale pink shoes?
Carmen’s parents were among the first generations of Latinx who
moved here from Puerto Rico as a result of heavy recruitment
efforts from Milwaukee’s manufacturing industry.
She attended South Division High School as part of the first group
of Latinxs to be integrated into an almost all white attended school.
She and the other Latinx youth were not readily welcomed or
accepted.
It was not until the first Latino teacher arrived that they were able
to find a sense of belonging and identity.
It was shortly after this time when she started her first job at the
age of 17 and she was introduced to social justice.
As she reflects on those developmental years, she recalls an even
earlier time when she participated in her first boycott.
She was seven years old and her first grade graduation was coming
up. The women selected pale pink and white for the graduation
colors.
Carmen refused to participate in the graduation when her mother
did not purchase the pink shoes she insisted on having to match
her outfit.
When Carmen attended her first community meeting, she finally
wore her pale pink shoes.
Carmen’s pale pink shoes legacy was launched at
the Legacy Awards Retro Ball.

11. What is
The FUTURE?

12. The FUTURE is a safe, livable, and economically vibrant Near South Side and Milwaukee,
because people come together, create moments, build legacies, and impact the future!

13. The FUTURE is about people coming together.

14. The FUTURE is
about People.
Friends.
Couples.
Buddies. New acquaintances.
Those who paved the way.
Those who will make new paths.
Family.

15. The FUTURE is about coming together and creating moments.

16. The FUTURE is
about moments.
We laugh. We cry. We sing. We play.
We rock out.
We have a moment within a moment.

17. The FUTURE is impacted by YOUR legacy!

18. The FUTURE is
YOUR legacy story!

19. Share your time, talents, and treasures.
Join the legacy efforts at SOC
to impact the future now!
click here to join now
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from the 2017 Legacy Awards Retro Ball.
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