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Biography: Carol Ruth Silver
Carol Ruth Silver was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 1, 1938, the eldest of three daughters. Carol received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago. After she received her undergraduate degree in 1960, she went to New York to work as a clerk at the United Nations. She attended some boycotts organized by Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and she responded immediately when CORE put out a call for Freedom Riders. The Freedom Riders were met with hostility in the Deep South and were ultimately jailed for their actions. Carol Silver was among the first white women to be jailed in the Freedom Rides. After her arrest on June 7, 1961, she spent forty days in jail in Mississippi, first in the Hinds County Jail and then in Parchman Prison. Later, during her time in law school, she spent summers working as a law clerk in Alaska and Uganda. When she graduated law school she had a one-year internship sponsored by Law Students Committee for Civil Rights. She worked in North Carolina for Floyd McKissick, who later became the head of CORE. She then worked in a variety of progressive movements, including the Farmworkers' Movement. Her eleven-year career in San Francisco politics included working with Harvey Milk on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She has been out of politics since 1989 and now works as a real estate attorney and broker.
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