The Maggie Phair Institute for Democracy and Human Rights

Article in Counterpunch. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/07/the-life-of-an-essential-activist-maggie-phair-1930-2021/

Two Veterans of the Peace & Freedom Party Die on June 29 Posted on July 1, 2021 by Richard Winger On June 29, Elizabeth Martinez and Maggie Phair, both former candidates in the Peace & Freedom Party, died. Martinez was 95 and Phair was 92. See this New York Times obituary for Elizabeth Martinez, and this page from the Maggie Phair Institute […]

Original article can be found here Maggie Phair, a founding and long-time member of the Peace and Freedom Party, passed away on June 29, 2021, at the age of 91. In 1967, Maggie helped found the Peace and Freedom Party of California to provide an alternative at the ballot box for voters who support civil […]

Maggie Phair passed away on June 29, 2021, at the age of 91.

Maggie Phair was born just before the stock market crash of 1929 and she grew up in the shadow of the Great Depression. Maggie’s activist career began at San Fernando High School when she brought the director of the Urban League to challenge racial slurs made by a teacher against Japanese, who had just been […]

It is with a heavy heart that we announce that Maggie Phair, founder of the Maggie Phair Institute for Democracy and Human Rights passed away this morning.