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Carolyn Jeffersan-Jenklns recently was elected as national president of the League of Women Voters.Local woman takes helm of national voters leagueBy Ovotto SampsonThe GazelteSprings resident Carolyn Jefferson Jenkins has spent a long liiv.o preparing for her post as national prosUlenr • if Un* League of Women Voters.She was elected ro the position (his week by deliveries al the lt;lUrd National Ideagno of Women Voters convention in Washington, D.C.The Colorado Springs woman is the first black to hold the top job at the 78-year-oJd organization. She's also the firrst woman who works full-time outside the homo to head the group founded .just six months before wr »n iSjfcfcjt-thtf right' fo •'vote. •For .Jefferson-Jenkins, ‘JO. vice president of i.-urticiiluiYi al Junior Achieve-jnonl. ihe challenge of involving propir in the political process slarled early in life’’If.'* nKvoya icen wiiti me, she »£][]•She recalls wliee. she was in 11 tin)See V0TERS/NEW56
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Colorado Springs Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Fri, Jul 03, 1998
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