Virginia Chambers; Activist for Labor, Founded Peace Group
From Associated Press
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. —
Virginia Derr Chambers, who walked picket lines for young women working in sweatshops and for Chicano miners, died Thursday of cancer at age 72.
Chambers helped establish the Institute for Global Education, a local organization that focuses on social justice and peace issues. She was a draft counselor during the Vietnam War and served as a library commissioner before her resignation last December.
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