YOUNGSTOWN Two factors were pivotal in Peter Geffen’s foray into the modern civil rights movement in the mid-1960s: the Holocaust a generation earlier, an
Born with activism in her blood, Gwendolyn Florence Green, was created to lead with Love. At three pounds this baby girl came into the world on April 22, 1925, in Oakland California. Her parents, Rosalie and Edward Smith, along with her grandparents were involved in numerous community organizations, trade unions and churches in determination to improve the lives of African Americans in their community.