by Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC
At the Abraham Lincoln museum I dedicated the ICB Presidential Award I received to my grandmother, the late Lois Sanders. She left school in 3rd grade to pick cotton in the Jim Crow South, worked as a domestic in Chicago for wealthy families and helped raise me. She never received an award for her sacrifices, but her love, patience and prayers helped make this moment possible. The award bears my name, but her fingerprints are all over it.