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Mary Williams (social activist)
Mary Luana Williams is an American social activist and writer who penned ''The Lost Daughter: A Memoir'' about her life. The memoir details being adopted by Jane Fonda and Ted Turner in her adolescence, as well as growing up as a daughter of Black Panthers before Fonda adopted her. Mary works with Sudanese refugees through the organization she founded, the Lost Boys Foundation.
==Early life==
Mary Luana "Lulu" Williams was born on October 13, 1967, the fifth daughter to Randy and Mary Williams. Both of her parents were Black Panthers in the Black Power civil rights movement, an organization dedicated to stopping police brutality toward African-Americans, and helping those who lacked employment, education, and healthcare. The family lived at the heart of the movement in East Oakland, California, during the height of the Vietnam War, Race riots and African-American Civil Rights Movement, in an era Williams would later describe as "violent and frenzied".〔''The Lost Daughter: A Memoir''; Penguin Books; 2013; pgs 1-6〕 Mary's father Randy was a captain within the Panthers militaristic hierarchy and participated in the controversial Armed Citizens' Patrol, where Panthers would tail police and patrol neighborhoods, ready to defend any blacks they saw being threatened by police. In April 1970, Williams' father and other Panthers witnessed several police officers arresting four black marijuana suspects and they intervened, ambushing and wounding three of the officers before fleeing. Thirty patrol cars pursued them on a high speed car chase while the Panthers tried to discourage pursuit by throwing molotov cocktails. Randy Williams was apprehended, charged with assault with intent to murder and given a seven-year sentence at a Correctional Training Facility near Soledad, California. At the time, Mary was four. Her mother was left to care for Mary and her five siblings, eventually becoming physically abusive while descending into alcoholism.〔
Williams's family further deteriorated when one of her siblings ran away and another turned to street prostitution as well as crack cocaine. Mary and her siblings were signed up for Laurel Springs Children’s Camp, a camp started by Fonda that was located on 160 acres near Santa Monica, California. She got to know Fonda while at the camp, and returned over successive years even when her siblings did not.
With aspirations to be an actor and escape Oakland, Williams went on an "open casting call" at age 14 at a theatre director's house. The man, named David, raped her. Over a number of weeks David continued the assaults, even driving to pick her up and take Mary back to his house. When he no longer wanted to be part of the "relationship" when school began again, Mary felt relieved and abandoned: "It took a long time for me to understand how it was that I had switched so quickly from a self-assured girl into a passive victim." After returning to Laurel Springs Children’s Camp the next summer, she eventually told counselors about the rape, who relayed that information to Fonda. Jane had a long heart-to-heart talk with Mary, and made her promise to tell her family about the rape, and said that if Mary worked on getting her grades up the next year, she could come to live with her for as long as she needed to. Mary stated, "I had given up on myself and my grades at school suffered, but Jane’s proposal renewed my interest in school. She threw me a lifeline and I grabbed it." In 1982, Mary moved in with Fonda at her Santa Monica mansion.
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