Activist Odyssey

Born to troubled and downwardly mobile parents with leftist leanings, Sylvia learned early that life isn't fair. Plunging on from a lonely and less than pampered childhood, she was hungry for new experiences and eager to make the world a better place for all. She earned Ivy League degrees, dabbled at a free spirit's globe-trotting lifestyle, and started playing meaningful roles at the forefront of major progressive movements of the latter twentieth century. She attracted-and sometimes married-bo