Carol Ruth Silver | |
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.jpg) Silver in 2012 in San Francisco | |
| Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from District 6 | |
| In office 1978–1980 | |
| Preceded by | District created |
| Succeeded by | Districts abolished |
| Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at-large | |
| In office 1981–1989 | |
| Preceded by | Districts abolished |
| Succeeded by | Terence Hallinan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 1, 1938 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Residence | San Francisco |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Profession | attorney |
Carol Ruth Silver (born October 1, 1938)[1][page needed] is an American lawyer and civil rights activist. She was a Freedom Rider, arrested and incarcerated for 40 days in Mississippi.[2][page needed][3][page needed] She was among those on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors allegedly targeted by Dan White in the Moscone–Milk assassinations, but escaped assassination because she was not in her office at the time of the murders.[4][5]
- ^ Schultz, Debra L. and Blanche Wiesen Cook (2002). Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement. NYU Press, ISBN 978-0-8147-9775-4
- ^ Ethridge, Eric, Breach of Peace (2008), Atlas & Co ISBN 978-0-9777433-9-1
- ^ Arsenault, Raymond, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Oxford University Press (2006) ISBN 978-0-19-513674-6; ISBN 0-19-513674-8
- ^ Weiss, Mike. (September 18, 1998). "Killer of Moscone, Milk had Willie Brown on List", San Jose Mercury News, Page A1
- ^ Weiss, Mike. (October 1998). "Dan White's Last Confession", San Francisco Magazine