But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
June Jordan Quotes
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
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| Birth: | 9th July, 1936 |
| Death: | 14th June, 2002 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Activist, Biographer, Playwright, Poet, Teacher, Writer |
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June Millicent Jordan was a Caribbean-American poet and activist. At Barnard Jordan met Columbia University student, Michael Meyer, whom she married in 1955. Jordan subsequently followed her husband to the University of Chicago, where he would pursue graduate studies in anthropology. She also enrolled at the university but soon returned to Barnard where she remained until 1957.
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