2004 Jeffrey Woo 2004

Elaine Woo Mildred Jeffrey, 93; Feminist Fought for Civil, Labor RightsLos Angeles Times 29 March 2004, B9.

Mildred Jeffrey (1911-2004), 2004

     "Co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971 . . .

     "She played a role in the birth of the antiwar Students for a Democratic Society when she arranged for her daughter and a group of fellow University of Michigan activists, including Tom Hayden, to gather at an AFL-CIO camp at Lake Huron in 1962, which resulted in the Port Huron Statement, the founding manifesto of the SDS and perhaps the most widely read document of the American Left in the 1960s, 2004

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