Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, Black Feminist

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Margaret Sloan-Hunter, a former editor of Ms. Magazine who was a leading black feminist and vocal civil rights advocate, died September 23 at Oakland, Calif. She was 57 and had been ill for some time.


Sloan-Hunter marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and was the first chair of the National Black Feminist Organization. She also was a lecturer and writer, publishing her collected poems in the book “Black & Lavender” in 1995.


She was an organizer for the Berkeley Women’s Center and the Feminist School for Girls after moving to Oakland in 1975. She also was co-founder the Women’s Foundation and served on the board of directors of the Women’s Alcoholism Center in San Francisco.


According to a biography compiled by family and friends, Sloan-Hunter became an activist early in life, joining the Chicago chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality at age 14. Three years later, she founded the Junior Catholic Inter-Racial Council, a group of inner-city and suburban students who worked against racism.


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