Sharon Jeffrey
Sharon Jeffrey Lehrer grew up in Detroit, the daughter of Mildred Jeffrey and Newman Jeffrey.
She is now a leadership coach and co-owner of an art gallery north of San Francisco.
An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left
An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left.
Now it is time for all those who yearn for a more equal and just social order to face facts.
By Former leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. April 16, 2020.
On April 13, 2020, Senator Bernie Sanders urged his supporters to vote for the presumptive Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden. Writing as founders and veterans of the leading New Left organization of the 1960s, Students for a Democratic Society, we welcome Bernie’s wise choice—but we are gravely concerned that some of his supporters, including the leadership of Democratic Socialists of America, refuse to support Biden, whom they see as a representative of Wall Street capital. Some of us are DSA members, but do not believe their position is consistent with a long-range vision of democracy, justice, and human survival....
We salute Bernie Sanders and our friends and comrades in DSA and in the diverse movements for social justice and environmental sanity that enabled them to rise. We look forward to joining together to build on and defend our accomplishments. And now we plead with all: Get together, beat Trump, and fight for democracy—precious, fragile, worth keeping.
The signers of this letter were founders, officers, and activists in Students for a Democratic Society between 1960 and 1969.
Signers included Sharon Jeffrey.
Students for a Democratic Society
In 1962, Detroit UAW official Mildred Jeffrey arranged[1]for her daughter, Sharon, and a group of politically active University of Michigan students, including Tom Hayden, to use an UAW camp[2]on Lake Huron. The students issued the Port Huron Statement, the founding document of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
When SDS was formed, the children of UAW staff attending the University of Michigan played an important role[3]in forming one of SDS's first and strongest branches. They included Sharon Jeffrey, daughter of UAW official Millie Jeffrey, Leslie Woodcock, daughter of UAW vice president Leonard Woodcock and Barry Bluestone, son of Irving Bluestone, Reuther's key administrative assistant in the 1960s.
Activism
After graduation in 1963, Jeffrey worked full time[4]in the civil rights movement, primarily with the Northern Student Movement, and later in SDS’s Cleveland ERAP project.
References
- ↑ http://www.aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=2468
- ↑ http://www.freepress.org/journal.php?strFunc=display&strID=254&strJournal=28
- ↑ American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years, 1935/1970 page 420, John Barnard
- ↑ Biography