Elizabeth Freeman (daughter of John F. and Blanche Freeman) volunteered for service in the Women’s Army Corps during WWII.
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Carl was six years older than his cousin Peg but there was a mutual admiration and bond, complicated by the great geographical distance between them.
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Elizabeth Freeman II
Elizabeth (or Betty as she was known earlier in her life) was engaged in many progressive causes, including the anti war movement, Women’s Land Movement, lesbian and gay pride, fighting ageism, and founded, with others, Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC).
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Allan Troxler
Allan, with Carl, and other gay men started RFD a publication for gay men living in the country.
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An Interracial Movement of the Poor?
This 1963 mimeographed article was written by Carl Wittman and Tom Hayden based on observations of their work in poor neighborhoods in Newark, NJ organizing around issues of housing, jobs, and discrimination.
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The Gay Manifesto
The Gay Manifesto, was, and remains, a pioneering document for the gay movement. Written shortly before the Stonewall Uprising in NYC in June of 1969, it laid out the revolutionary potential of the movement to challenge the power structure.
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Carl Wittman, Organizer
Carl Wittman, son of Jeanette Freeman Wittman and Walter Wittman, lived the life of an organizer and he was pivotal in a number of movements.
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Jane Freeman, Artist
Jane Freeman, the portrait painter and artist, was born in Chesterfield England in 1871 and was brought by her mother (Mary Hall Freeman) to the United States with her two younger siblings, John Francis Freeman and Elisabeth Freeman in the mid 1870’s.
Jennie is the mother of Blanche Bishop Freeman, who was mother of Jeanette, Ruth, John, Elizabeth, and Helen Freeman.
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Walter T. Wittman Memorial
Walter T. Wittman was the son of Carl and Mary (Thalmeyer) Wittman, and father of Jane Vandebogart and Carl Wittman.