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Mary Frances Berry
Mary Frances Berry American professor, writer, lawyer, and activist Mary Frances Berry speaking at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark at Pembroke Academy, Detroit, 2004.

Mary Frances Berry

American professor, writer, lawyer, and activist
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Mary Frances Berry (born February 17, 1938, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) is an American professor, writer, lawyer, and activist whose public service included work in three presidential administrations. A scholar of constitutional law and racial and gender inequity in American life, she was a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1980–2004), serving as chair from 1993 to 2004. Berry was also an outspoken advocate of the Equal Rights Amendment and critic of the South...

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