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DESCRIPTION:Ann Fagan Ginger, 07/11/1925- 08/20/2025, was a fearless and visionary 
 American attorney, writer, educator, and civil rights pioneer. She died 
 peacefully at her home in Berkeley weeks after her 100th birthday. A 
 towering figure in human rights and International Peace Law, she founded 
 the Meikeljohn Civil Liberties Institute and received a lifetime 
 achievement award from the National lawyer’s Guild. She practiced law in 
 Boston, where her then husband, a radical historian, was teaching at 
 Harvard. They were forced to leave when they refused to sign affidavits 
 that they were not Communists. For Ann this was a civil rights issue. In 
 the late 50’s she argued and won a case before the U.S. Supreme Court 
 upholding the due process rights of a client who was targeted by the 
 Ohio‘s “ Un-American Activities Committee”. In 1962, Ann was the only 
 female attorney to attend the first interracial meeting in Atlanta, 
 co-sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild and Dr. King’s Southern 
 Christian Leadership Council. She argued that women should be included and 
 predicted the coming Women’s Rights Movement. \n\nThe Rev. Meg 
 Whitaker-Greene, Licensed Psychotherapist, graduated from Starr King 
 School,1978 and was ordained as a UU Minister. She worked at Planned 
 Parenthood; in Clinics serving survivors of sexual abuse (children, 
 adolescents and adults); was Adjunct Faculty at Starr King, Graduate 
 Theological Union; Treatment Coordinator and Therapist of Families of 
 Persons suffering depression and/or psychosis (no drugs used ) at Contra 
 Costa County Hospital. Meg was the Clinical Supervisor of Native American 
 Health Center’s Family Trauma Dept.,SF. She served Congregations as 
 Minister: Davenport, Iowa; Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Atherton, England. She 
 was Journalist and Photographer for the Nicaraguan Interfaith Committee for 
 Action,1983 and Witness for Peace in 1987,1988 when the Contras were 
 attacking. She was the UUA representative at Standing Rock in North Dakota 
 doing photography and journalism in 2016, 2017. She is a Founding Board 
 Member of the Faithful Fools (1997) and is an Affiliated Minister with the 
 Faithful Fools. Meg was a close friend of Ann Fagan Ginger.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/03/12/18884947.php
SUMMARY:Meg Whitaker: "Ann Fagan Ginger, Pioneering Feminist & Civil Rights Attorney"
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