A spotlight on a powerful, wonderful, revolutionary, woman in camping, Marcy Brower

There are some amazing people who blaze a trail for change;

Marcy and Bob founded and operated Circle M Day Camp in Wheeling Illinois for 45 years, one of the first private camps to hire minority staff and enroll minority children.

Her interest in opportunities for children eventually influenced the whole of private camping in the national organization of private camps.

Marcy and Bob founded the Mid states Camping conference in 1993. And Marcy was an American Camp Association Illinois Board member and then served on the National Board and an endless list of committees.

Marcy was active in the civil rights movement and in the struggle for the rights of the LGBTQ community, particularly in ACA. She raised funds for civil rights groups and labor unions by sponsoring folk music concerts on the campgrounds during the 1960s, and marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington in 1963.

Here is an article they wrote in the 1960’s for American Camp Association:

https://www.acacamps.org/resource-library/articles/desegregating-circle-m-day-camp-determination-succeed

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