Garment workers lobbyist Dubrow dies
Ottawa Recorder, Canada
Staff and agencies
21 June, 2014
47 minutes ago
WASHINGTON – Evelyn Dubrow, an advocate for labor rights and women‘s rights for more than half a century, died Tuesday night. She was 95.
Dubrow started working on Capitol Hill in the mid-1950s. Over the course of nine presidential administrations, she lobbied for the International Ladies‘ Garment Workers Union and its successor, UNITE-HERE. She also was a leader in the Vietnam-era campaign to lower the voting age to 18.
In 1999, President Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation‘s highest civilian honor. He called the diminutive labor lobbyist a “tiny woman … larger than life” who had been able to bring together people of opposing viewpoints.
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