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Jean Cahn ( née Camper; 26 May 1935-2 Jan. 1991), was a lawyer and social activist who helped establish Federal financing of legal services to the poor. Cahn was the first director of the National Legal Services Program in the O.E.O. and later founded the Urban Law Institute at George Washington University. In 1971, she co-founded the Antioch School of Law (now the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia) with her husband and law associate Edgar Cahn. == Early life == Jean Camper was born on May 26, 1935 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father, John Emory Toussaint Camper, was a civil rights activist and physician. Her mother, Florine Thompson, was a hairdresser. She grew up in Baltimore with her sister Elizabeth, and her two stepbrothers and two stepsisters from her father’s first marriage. The Camper household was a regular meeting place for local NAACP figures and national civil rights leaders, such as Thurgood Marshall and her godfather Paul Robeson. Camper’s father was known as “one of the most formidable men in black Baltimore.” She would draw her inspiration from him, and from a series of personal incidents which would force her to confront racial injustice. Camper was deeply effected when her younger brother, John Jr., suffering from a treatable ear infection, was refused treatment by Johns Hopkins University hospital because of his race. The hospital would eventually admitted the boy, but only after the infection had spread, forcing doctors to remove part of his brain. “They treated him like a monkey,” Camper’s mother would recall. In 1950, Jean gained entrance into the prestigious Emma Willard School for Girls in New York on the recommendation of theologian Howard Thurman. Emma Willard would bring its own challenges: Many of the school’s white students resisted her presence, some refusing to even live near her dormitory room. One girl told Jean that Jean’s mother should be washing the floors of her house. Other similar incidents served only to increase her fury at racial injustice. At a young age, “a good part of () makeup got to be anger.” After graduating, Camper enrolled in Northwestern University, where she would live in an all-white student dormitory. While there, one of her friends enlisted Camper as a ghostwriter for a long-distance romance she was conducting. Jean would write the letters, her friend would copy them into her own hand, and then send them off to a boy at Swarthmore. At the close of her first year, Camper was stricken with rheumatic fever and was forced to leave Northwestern to recuperate in Baltimore. When she recovered, she resumed her studies at Swarthmore College where she tracked down the recipient of her love letters: Her future husband, Edgar S. Cahn. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean Camper Cahn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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