Education
Steiner graduated from Vassar College and attended graduate courses at Radcliffe College.
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Jacqueline Steiner
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Steiner is known for having written the lyrics to the song "M.T.A.", about a man stuck on the Boston subway because he could not pay the exit fare. "M.T.A." was co-written with Bess Lomax Hawes as part of a Boston political campaign in 1949 and later altered slightly by the popular folk group the Kingston Trio, becoming one of their hits in 1959. As Jacqueline Sharpe, she released an album of antiwar songs in 1966 entitled Number More War.
Steiner is a linguist and demonstrated this interest in 1991 with her album Far Afield: Songs of Three Continents.
Achievements
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Steiner joined the Norwalk, Connecticut branch of the African American civil rights advocacy group the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in 1991, serving several years as the chapter"s secretary and receiving the Roy Wilkins Leadership Award for service from the state National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 2010.
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