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= Marian Kramer =

Marian Kramer is a committed civil rights, poverty, and labor activist born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1944, and is now based in Detroit, Michigan. Having been involved in the Civil Rights Movement since childhood, attending community meetings and rallies with family members, Kramer truly immersed herself in the movement while studying at Southern University in Baton Rouge. She is the recipient of numerous awards for community service; In 2004, Kramer was awarded an Alston/Bannerman Fellowship, a fellowship for esteemed, long-time community activists of color. She was interviewed for the Global Feminisms Project on March 5, 2004.

Activism
Marian Kramer has been a large part of the welfare and civil rights movements since the early 1960s. Kramer worked for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) as an organizer for their voter registration campaign. She currently serves as the cochair of the National Welfare Rights Union, an organization she founded with her peers that built solidarity and boasted a more democratic configuration than that of the National Welfare Rights Organization.

Organization Contributions:

 * Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
 * National Council of Negro Women
 * African-American Women's Caucus
 * Women of Color Caucus
 * National Anti-Hunger Coalition
 * National Organization for Women
 * Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
 * Wayne County Welfare Rights Organization
 * United Auto Workers

Organizations Co-Founded:

 * National Welfare Rights Union
 * Black Panther Party (in Detroit, MI)
 * Welfare Workers for Justice

Publications
Kramer, M. (1994). Remarks on the National Welfare Rights Union. Social Justice, 21(1 (55)), 9-11. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/29766774