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Yale University.
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Peter Countryman
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He founded the Northern Student Movement at Yale University in 1961 and served as its executive director until 1963. Born in Chicago, Countryman directed a tutorial project in Philadelphia aimed at helping minority teenagers. He was one of the founders in 1967 of People for Human Rights, an interracial Philadelphia-area group.
In 1970, he visited Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade.
He contracted Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome through IV drug use and died in West Lafayette, Indiana.
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