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Ruth First  

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  • Ruth First was a lifelong communist and committed opponent of the South African regime as a journalist, writer, theorist, and activist. In 1953 she helped found the Congress of Democrats, was on the drafting committee of the Freedom Charter, and, along with her husband Joe Slovo, was a defendant in a 1956 treason trial. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; First, Ruth (1925–1982)]

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