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Sloan-Hunter was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and grew up in Chicago.
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Margaret Sloan-Hunter
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When she was 14, she joined the Congress of Racial Equality (Congress of Racial Equality), a group that worked on poverty and urban issues on behalf of the African-American community in Chicago. At the age of 17, she founded the Junior Catholic Inter-Racial Council, a mix of suburban and inner-city students who talked about and worked on racial problems. In 1966, Sloan-Hunter worked with Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior. at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and in the "Open Housing Marches".
In 1973, she founded the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO), which tackled some of the same race and feminist issues.
Sloan-Hunter also helped organize the Berkeley Women's Center and the Feminist School for Girls. Sloan-Hunter published a book of poetry called Black & Lavender in 1995.
She died in Oakland in 2004 after a prolonged illness.
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