Jo Freeman
Jo Freeman aka Joreen, is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties and the civil rights movement. She went on to do voter registration and community organization in Alabama and Mississippi and was an early organizer of the women's liberation movement.
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- Atlanta
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- University of ChicagoUniversity of California, BerkeleyNew York University School of Law
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1945
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