Maggie Kuhn, one of the founders of the Gray Panthers, Elderly Rights Activist, 1905-1995

Maggie devoted her �retirement� years to battling the increasing marginalization of the elderly. Maggie Kuhn started the Gray Panthers in 1970, a radical social activist organization raising issues of justice and fairness for older Americans, as a response to her forced retirement at age 65. She led a remarkable life, integrating people of all ages in working for social and economic justice. Maggie's voice and activism remain central to what the Gray Panthers stand for today. She traveled around the US on behalf of the rights of the elderly and is credited with the passage of laws prohibiting forced retirement and with reform in health care and nursing home oversight. Maggie Kuhn never married,

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nor did she try to hide her many affairs, including one suitor who was 50 years her junior. She died 3 months before her ninetieth birthday. �By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.� - Maggie Kuhn

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