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Margaret Sloan-Hunter
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"I'm not black Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and a woman Thursday, Friday and Saturday." -- Margaret Sloan-Hunter
Margaret Sloan-Hunter, an early editor at Ms.
Magazine, a poet and an activist fighting for feminist, lesbian and African-American causes died Sept. 23, , in Oakland, Calif., after what her family called a prolonged illness.
Learn about the life and contributions of Margaret Sloan-Hunter, a Black feminist, lesbian, and civil rights advocate.
She was Born May 31, , in Chattanooga, Tenn., grew up in Chicago, she dedicated most of her life to the civil rights and women's movements.
To say the gay & lesbian community lost a tireless activist would be an understatement.
Sloan-Hunter undertook her first high-profile civil rights project when she was just 14 years old when she joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a group that worked on poverty and urban issues on behalf of the African-American community in Chicago.
She organized tenants unions and rent strikes