Peggy Terry

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Overview

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Peggy Terry born Haileyville, OK October 28, 1921 (d. 2004). Vice-Presidential peace candidate, 1968; community organizer, poor white Southerner civil rights activist in Montgomery bus boycott; member Women for Peace Chicago; CORE protest 1963 led to 6 arrests; SNCC activist, 1966; organizer Jobs or Income Now (JOIN); first Peace & Freedom party’s vice presidential candidate with Eldridge Cleaver, 1968.

Quotations

"It's not only blacks and college kids who want to turn things around. Other working people and young people—we know we're being done the same way. And we don't need any politicians to tell us what we want. We know! We want to run our own lives!" (“All Power to the People”, p. 30; photo bannedlibrarian)