Edith Green

出生 : 1910-01-17, Trent, South Dakota, USA

死亡 : 1987-04-21

略歴

Edith Louise Starrett Green was an American politician and educator from Oregon. She was the second Oregonian woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served a total of ten terms, from 1955 to 1974, as a Democrat.

参加作品

Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer
Self - Congresswoman, Democratic Party (archive footage)
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created freedom schools, and established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Fifty years later, eyewitness accounts and never-before-seen archival material tell their story. Not all of them would make it through.