Susan Stern
Susan Ellen (Tanenbaum) Stern (January 31, 1943 – July 31, 1976) was an American political activist. She was a member of the prominent anti-Vietnam War groups Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Weatherman and the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF).
Stern was tried in 1970 on charges of conspiring to damage a federal courthouse as one of the Seattle Seven. The trial ended in a mistrial due to the defendants' disruptive courtroom behavior. Stern and her co-defendants; Roger Lippman, Joe Kelly, Jeff Dowd, Michael Lerner, Chip Marshall, and Mike Abeles were summarily convicted of contempt of court and sentenced to six months in prison, of which Stern served three.
She wrote a memoir entitled With the Weathermen: The Personal Journey of a Revolutionary Woman about her experiences. With the Weathermen was reprinted in September 2007 by Rutgers University Press with an introduction by Laura Browder as part of the series Subterranean Lives.
Stern died of heart and lung failure on July 31, 1976, at University Hospital in Seattle, at the age of 33.
Read more about Susan Stern: Early Years, College and Married Life, Students For A Democratic Society, Weatherman
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