Mildred Persinger

Female, Person

1918 –

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Who is Mildred Persinger?

Mildred Emory Persinger is an American feminist and international activist for non-governmental organizations. In the early 1960s Persinger served as a public member on the U.S. Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, and on the Committee Against Discrimination of the American Civil Liberties Union. From 1969 to 1972 Persinger was chairwoman of the Conference of the US Conference of NGOs. Persinger was the United States' World YWCA observer at the United Nations from 1968 to the present. Persinger chaired the planning and management of the 1975 NGO Forum parallel to the first UN World Women's Conference in Mexico City, the first of the series ending with Beijing 1985.

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Born
Apr 28, 1918
Roanoke

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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