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Article: MAGGIE KUHN, 89; GRAY PANTHERS FOUNDER.(CAPITAL REGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 23, 1995
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Byline: New York Times
Maggie Kuhn, who called herself a little old woman and celebrated her forced retirement in 1970 by founding the Gray Panthers, died Saturday at the home she shared in Philadelphia with a like-minded coterie. She was 89.
``She died peacefully in her sleep,'' said her personal assistant, Leary, who could not say which of Kuhn's many ailments, from arthritis to osteoporosis, had caused her death.
For all Kuhn's ailments, none had slowed her down. She spent the last 25 years leading people young and old in the fight against age discrimination and other forms of what she saw as social injustice and stereotypical thinking ...