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| Affiliation | Independent |
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| Name | Mary Frances Berry |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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February 17, 1938
(86 years)
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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| Info | Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania where she teaches History of American Law and advises graduate students in Legal History and African American History. She was appointed by President Carter and confirmed by the Senate as a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. After President Reagan fired her for criticizing his civil rights policies, she sued him and won reinstatement in federal district court. In 1993, President Clinton designated her Chairperson of the Civil Rights Commission. She was reappointed to a six-year term in January, 1999. She resigned from the Commission on December 7, 2004.
Mary Frances Berry became Chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on November 19, 1993. An Independent, she was reappointed to the Commission by the President in January 1999. She was a Vice Chair of the Civil Rights Commission in 1980-82, and has been a Commissioner since that time.
Dr. Berry was one of the founders of the Free South Africa Movement in the 1980s which instigated protests at the South African Embassy in the successful struggle for democracy in South Africa. She was arrested and jailed several times in the cause. She was in Capetown on February 11, 1990 to meet Nelson Mandela upon his release from Robben Island.
Dr. Berry was Assistant Secretary for Education in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare during the Carter Administration. As Assistant Secretary, she coordinated and gave general supervision to federal education programs. Prior to her service at HEW, Dr. Berry was a Provost at the University of Maryland, College Park, and then Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dr. Berry was educated at Howard University, the University of Michigan (PhD in history), and the University of Michigan Law School. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
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