Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Prestigious battler
Associated Press · November 17, 1972
Jewel Lafontant, whose prestige has been further enhanced by her appointment this year as a U.S. delegate to U.N. general assembly, gestures in new York recently. Mrs. Lafontant, a successful lawyer, board member of trans world airlines and civic leader, works harder for her closest concerns-her race and her sex."I am female and I've spent my life in civil rights causes," she says.
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