1. Margaret Sloan-Hunter was a Black feminist, lesbian, civil rights advocate, and one of the early editors of Ms.
12 Facts About Margaret Sloan-Hunter
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Margaret Sloan-Hunter was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on May 31,1947.
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When Sloan-Hunter was 14, she joined the Congress of Racial Equality, a group that worked on poverty and urban issues on behalf of the African-American community in Chicago.
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In 1966, Margaret Sloan-Hunter worked with Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
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Margaret Sloan-Hunter was a founding member of Lavender Women in 1971.
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Margaret Sloan-Hunter paired up with Jane Galvin-Lewis, a former writer of Ms.
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Margaret Sloan-Hunter helped organize the Berkeley Women's Center and the Feminist School for Girls.
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Margaret Sloan-Hunter was an intersectionality activist, fighting for African American, feminist, and lesbian causes.
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Margaret Sloan-Hunter won many awards for public speaking in high school.
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Margaret Sloan-Hunter went on to Chicago City College and Malcolm X College to major in speech.
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The political activism of Margaret Sloan-Hunter was featured in the television show Mrs America which aired on Hulu in the spring of 2020.
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Margaret Sloan-Hunter died in Oakland, California, when she was 57 years old.