Mildred Fahrni | |
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Born | Mildred Osterhout 2 January 1900 Manitoba, Canada |
Died | 13 April 1992 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | (aged 92)
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Occupation(s) | social activist, feminist, pacifist |
Years active | 1924-1979 |
Mildred Fahrni (1900-1992) was a Canadian pacifist and socialist, who became friends with Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. She was a leader of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Fahrni actively opposed World War II and the xenophobia that led to Japanese Canadian internment and the internment of Dukhobor children. She was an ardent feminist and social activist.