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Minna Ziskind

Minna Ziskind received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Her dissertation “Citizenship, Consumerism, and Gender: A Study of District 65, 1947–1960” examined the responses of a left-wing labor union to political, economic, and social changes in the post-World War II period. She currently lectures at Penn State Abington and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Alice Springer Fleisher Liveright

Social worker Alice Springer Fleisher Liveright devoted much of her life to working for equal rights for women and African Americans, and for social welfare for children and poor adults. Passionate in her quest for social justice, she served as president of the Juvenile Aid Society, president of the Philadelphia Conference of Social Work, and as the Pennsylvania State Secretary of Welfare.