- Source: Mildred Persinger
- Gloria DeHaven
- Daftar tokoh Disney
- Warner Bros.
- Penghargaan Vannevar Bush
- Athens, Georgia
- Tuak nira
- Love Me Tender (film)
- 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
- The Wild One
- A Soldier's Plaything
- Mildred Persinger
- Mildred (name)
- Persinger
- World Conference on Women, 1975
- 1918 in the United States
- Deaths in November 2018
- National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year
- Elizabeth Palmer (activist)
- Wilson Trailer Company
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
Mildred Tilghman Emory Persinger (April 28, 1918 – November 11, 2018) was an American feminist and international activist for non-governmental organizations (NGO).
Persinger was born in Roanoke, Virginia in April 1918. In the early 1960s Persinger served as a public member on the U.S. Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, and on the Committee Against Discrimination of the
American Civil Liberties Union. From 1969 to 1972, Persinger was chairwoman of the Conference of the US Conference of NGOs. Persinger was the United States' World YWCA observer at the United Nations from 1968 to the present.
Persinger chaired the planning and management of the 1975 NGO Forum parallel to the first UN World Women's Conference in Mexico City, the first of the series ending with Beijing 1985. She turned 100 in April 2018 and died later the same year.
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External links
Olcott, Jocelyn (2017). International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195327687.