Prince, Margaret

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Margaret Prince was an active member in the Albuquerque Chapter of the United Nations Association of the United States of America. She served on the steering committee, as co-chair, and as newsletter editor of the League of Women Voters' sponsored Western States Water Study. Additionally, Prince was involved in Los Alamos County and New Mexico State Democratic politics. She was a member of the Los Alamos Grass Roots Committee a liberal wing of the Democratic party which was formed in protest to politics as usual, the War in Vietnam and its supporters. The Grass Roots Committee worked to elect anti-war Democratic candidate Eugene McCarthy as president in 1968. Prince was a member of the Los Alamos Citizens for Peace in Vietnam organizing and participating in the Vietnam Moratorium Day demonstration. In 1970 she was a key organizer for the Hiroshima Day remembrance which was a bold endeavor considering Los Alamos was the birth place of the atom bomb.

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