helped an American organisation salute three role models for women.

Progressive Labour Party Senator Ms Neletha Butterfield was invited to serve on the Honorary Committee of the 1995 Annual Brunch of the National Political Congress of Black Women Incorporated.

The NPCBW is a non-profit, non-partisan organisation formed in 1984 to encourage all African American women to participate in the political and economic process as voters, candidates, policy makers, fundraisers and role models.

The three women recognised at yesterday's brunch were: Ms Coretta Scott King, the founder and former Chairwoman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Martin Luther King Jr. Centre for Nonviolent Social Change; Dr. Betty Shabazz, the Director of Institutional Advancement and Public Relations for Medgar Evers College, and; Ms Myrlie Evers-William, the Chairwoman of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.

These women were saluted at the brunch because they struggled against the odds in a non-violent way, taught principles of integrity, honour, ethics and morals to their children and were role models for women from all walks of life, said the NPCBW.

Sen. Butterfield had just returned from the United Nations' Non-Governmental Organisations Forum on Women in Beijing, China.