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(b. 12 January 1942 in Chicago, Illinois), prominent civil rights and anti–Vietnam War activist who went in the 1960s from serving as a national leader for Students for a Democratic Society to becoming the best-known member of the radical, violent Weather Underground.

The daughter of lower-middle-class Jewish parents, Dohrn grew up with one sister in Whitefish Bay, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Her father worked as an appliance-store credit manager, her mother as a secretary.

After graduating from Whitefish Bay High School in 1959, Dohrn entered Miami University of Ohio but left two years later because of rheumatic fever.

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Bernardine Rae Dohrn (born January 12, , in Chicago, Illinois) is an activist, academic and "child advocate".

Bernardine Dohrn was a smart cheerleader in high school who went on to get her law degree amidst the political turbulence of late s Chicago.

Upon recovery Dohrn transferred to the University of Chicago, from which she received a B.A. in 1963. She subsequently spent a few months working in a Chicago ghetto for the Illinois Department of Public Aid and attempted to unionize her fellow caseworkers.

Graduate work in history followed, as did advocacy for welfare families as a