Charlotte Hill O'Neal | |
Birth Date: | 9 March 1951 |
Birth Place: | Kansas City, Kansas, United States |
Other Names: | Mama C, Osotunde Fasuyi |
Occupation: | Community Organizer, Artist, Author |
Party: | Black Panther Party |
Movement: | Black Power Movement |
Spouse: | Pete O'Neal |
Charlotte Hill O'Neal (born March 9, 1951[1]) is co-director of the United African American Community Center, now called the United African Alliance Community Center (UAACC).[2] The UAACC, a non-profit NGO, was founded in 1991 by O'Neal and her husband, Pete O’Neal, with the goal of empowering black urban and rural youth in Tanzania.[3] She and Pete have two children together, Malcolm and AnnWood "Stormy" O'Neal.
O'Neal is from Kansas City, Kansas,[4] where she became a member of the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1969.[5] She would marry the head of the chapter Pete O'Neal.[6]
At the age of 17, O'Neal became a member of the Kansas School of Human Dignity where she went around to churches and schools in the local community to speak about Black history.
O'Neal is a published author with two books of poetry. Her first poetry book titled Warrior Woman of Peace was published in 2008[7] and features poems on her personal experiences as a woman and on the women who have impacted her life. Life Slices...a Taste of Magic was published in 2016.[8]