Civil Rights activist Joan C. Browning was the special speaker for the May meeting of the Putnam County Democratic Women’s Club. The photo on the right is of Browning in the early 1960’s. (Photo by Betsy Allen)

Not only did Joan C. Browning live through one of the most tumultuous decades of the 20th Century, she frequently found herself in the midst of the tumult. During her college days in the early 1960’s, she became…