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January 19, 2018

Paul Booth, Labor and Antiwar Activist, Dies at 74
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And Paul Booth, longtime labor leader and antiwar activist, has died at
the age of 74. In 1965, Booth helped lead the first major march against
the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. Through much of the 1960s, Paul
Booth was a spokesperson for Students for a Democratic Society, the
campus-based civil rights and antiwar group. Booth went on to organize
on behalf of working people for more than four decades with AFSCME, the
country's largest public employees union. Paul Booth died Wednesday of
complications from leukemia in Washington, D.C.


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