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Ruth First · Civil Rights & Human Rights

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Ruth First was a prolific writer and her penetrating investigative journalism exposed many of the harsh conditions under which the majority of South Africans lived.

When

4 May 1925

Biography

Ruth First is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Ruth First was a prolific writer and her penetrating investigative journalism exposed many of the harsh conditions under which the majority of South Africans lived.

How & why

Ruth First was a prolific writer and her penetrating investigative journalism exposed many of the harsh conditions under which the majority of South Africans lived. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Milton Shain, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Milton Shain

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Ruth First was a prolific writer and her penetrating investigative journalism exposed many of the harsh conditions under which the majority of South Africans lived.

1925

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Milton Shain