How do we achieve true social and economic justice in American society? Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She served as Assistant Secretary for Education in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare during the Carter Administration and was appointed by President Carter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. President Reagan fired her when she criticized his civil rights policies, but she sued in court and won reinstatement. President Clinton appointed her Chair of the Commission, where she served until 2004. A founder of the Free South Africa Movement, which initiated protests at the South African Embassy in the successful struggle for democracy, she shares AFSC?s vision of equality and rights for all people, regardless of color, race, ethnicity, religious persuasion or gender identification.

How do we achieve true social and economic justice in American society? Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She served as Assistant Secretary for Education in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare during the Carter Administration and was appointed by President Carter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. President Reagan fired her when she criticized his civil rights policies, but she sued in court and won reinstatement. President Clinton appointed her Chair of the Commission, where she served until 2004. A founder of the Free South Africa Movement, which initiated protests at the South African Embassy in the successful struggle for democracy, she shares AFSC?s vision of equality and rights for all people, regardless of color, race, ethnicity, religious persuasion or gender identification.