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[edit] Early Activist Work After graduating from high school Cathy Wilkerson was accepted into Swarthmore College. During the first year of college she became interested in politics. In April, 1962 Cathy became involved with a civil rights group that organized anti-segregation work in Cambridge, Maryland. [7, p. 46] Her activist work continued throughout the college. In June, 1963 Cathy Wilkerson attended Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) National Meeting in Pine Hill, New York and wrote “Rats, Washtubs, and Block Organizing”. [7, p. 63] Cathy Wilkerson graduated in June of 1966 and spent summer and fall working as a campaign organizer for Representative Robert W. Kastenmeier, a liberal Democrat from Wisconsin. [4] In 1967, Wilkerson was employed in the national office of the SDS in Chicago and became the editor of New Left Notes. [4] In 1967, she was elected into SDS National Interim Council and moved to Washington to set up a regional office. [4] Being an action-oriented and deeply committed to the movement she aligned herself with Weathermen fraction of SDS in 1969. Shortly after her graduation from college, she traveled to Cuba to witness the results of the Cuban Revolution first hand. She was also very active in civil rights and the women’s movement. [1]