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Mary Frances Berry (born Feb. 17, 1938, Nashville, Tenn., U.S.) is an American professor, writer, lawyer, and activist whose public service included work in three presidential administrations. From 1980 to 2004, she was a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, serving as chairwoman from 1993 to 2004. She was also an outspoken advocate ...
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Dec 26, 2012 · Mary Frances Berry is a scholar, professor, author, and civil rights activist who served on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Berry was born in Nashville, Tennessee on February 17, 1938 to parents Frances Southall Berry and George Ford Berry.
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American writer, academic, and former president of the Organization of American Historians. An expert on social history and law, she also served as Chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
She began her college career at Nashville's Fisk University, but later transferred to Howard University. She went on to receive both her Ph.D. and her J.D. from the University of Michigan.
She held a professorship in history at the University of Pennsylvania and also served a term as Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
She was born in Nashville, Tennessee to Frances and George Berry. She and her brother spent a period of their childhood in an orphanage as a result of their family's poverty. She was married in 1966.
She once stated that "If Rosa Parkshad taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing."
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Oct 9, 2020 · She is the former chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, former assistant secretary for education in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the author of thirteen books.
May 9, 2014 · A life-long veteran of the civil rights and education reform movements, Berry has assumed many roles in her pursuit of blacks’ and women’s basic civil rights. As a scholar and a historian, Berry has written ten books dealing with racism, women’s rights, and black history.
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Penn Professor Mary Frances Berry a Long-time Civil Rights Advocate and Voice for the Powerless. Mary Frances Berry, 74, has dedicated her life to championing the rights of people “nobody else would listen to.”. Berry has been the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and professor of history at the University of ...
Serving as Chairperson of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Berry demanded equal rights and liberties for all Americans during four Presidential administrations. A pathbreaker, she also became the first woman to head a major research university, serving at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
