Ehrmann, Sara R., 1895-1993
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Ehrmann, Sara R., 1895-1993
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Ehrmann, Sara R., 1895-1993
Ehrmann, Sara R.
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Ehrmann, Sara Rosenfeld
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Sara R. Ehrmann
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Sara R. Ehrmann
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Executive director of the American League to Abolish Capital Punishment.
Sara R. Ehrmann was a Boston-area civic leader best known for her work as an opponent of capital punishment. Ehrmann's career as a capital punishment abolitionist began in 1925 when her husband Herbert B. Ehrmann became an associate counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists convicted of murder and condemned to death. Sara Ehrmann was a key leader of the Massachusetts Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty (1928-1969) and the American League to Abolish Capital Punishment (1949-1969). She was also active in organizations serving prisoners, notably the United Prison Association, and Friends of Framingham. In addition, she was active in Jewish and women's organizations and in civic life in the Town of Brookline, Massachusetts.
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