Frances Goldin

I’ve been an activist since my 18th year when I met a Socialist on my job and was introduced to his world and then married him. He was a leader of the then American Labor Party. I started in community housing and after 50 years of struggle (and nine arrests) defeated Robert Moses and saved the Cooper Square community by forcing the city to adopt OUR urban renewal plan. I established a left literary agency which has flourished over the years, and am involved in the anti–death penalty fight, and particularly, I led a gang to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. I still work at 86, and there is no doubt that it is the movement that keeps me going.