Rosa Parks' cousin endorses Augusta candidate for Congress – The Augusta Chronicle

One of five Democrats seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Rick Allen said her campaign is channeling the tenacity of America’s civil rights leaders to fight for constituents.
A cousin of civil rights icon Rosa Parks appeared Friday at a campaign event for Augusta attorney Tracell Peace-Nichols to underscore the candidate’s point.
To the rest of the world, Parks is a defining figure in American history. To McCauley, even though they were second cousins, she was just Aunt Rosie.
“I’m here to honor Aunt Rosie and to keep her legacy alive, because I truly believe that in everything she didn’t believe in, she would have backed Tracelle Peace-Nichols for Congress,” McCauley said at Garden Grove Baptist Church on Wheeler Road. “Tracelle has the education, she has the wherewithal and she has the honesty and the integrity and the grit to step up, walk into Congress and with her education she wants to be able to make the laws and change the laws to help the people.”
Peace-Nichols’ remarks followed McCauley’s, and she told assembled supporters that they should follow the civil rights advocate’s example.
“That is the exact path that I need to follow. That is the example that she has already embedded into our time,” the candidate said. “That’s what we need to become. That’s who we need to be.”
Peace-Nichols, a married mother of five, moved to Augusta as a teenager. She worked her way through then-Augusta State University and worked as a Georgia probation officer while earning two master’s degrees. After completing law school, shortly after giving birth to her fifth child, she worked as an Augusta Judicial Circuit prosecutor before opening her own practice.
Peace-Nichols’ platform emphasizes helping marginalized segments of the population fight a bureaucracy she says has left them behind: military veterans choked by health care bureaucracy; at-risk youths lacking positive focus; and average consumers becoming overwhelmed by rising prices against shrinking paychecks.
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“I’m not going for myself, for clout or anything else. I love being an attorney,” she said. “So I’m going there as a messenger, because at the end of the day, Washington is supposed to work for the people. They’re supposed to be the people’s voice, not supposed to go in and plug in their own special interest groups or trying to make a name for themselves.”
Peace-Nichols said she’s not the type to posture in front of cameras, ideally preferring to work for change behind the scenes.
That doesn’t minimize her passion, according to her father. Roscoe Peace remembers 5-year-old Tracell’s zeal after joining the school-based drug prevention program D.A.R.E.
“Out of all my kids, she was marching around the house repeating, ‘Drug Abuse Resistance Education!’ I was like, ‘A 5-year-old?” he recalled. “She’s been passionate about causes her whole life.”

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