Frances Sweeney
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title:
Frances Sweeney
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Frances Ursula Sweeney was a journalist and activist who campaigned against fascism, antisemitism, and political corruption in 1940s Boston. She edited her own newspaper, the Boston City Reporter, and started the Boston Herald Rumor Clinic to combat fascist disinformation. Seeking to counteract the influence of the priest Charles Coughlin, whose antisemitic broadcasts were popular with Boston's Irish Catholics, she led protests and wrote editorials condemning the Christian Front and similar orga
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American journalist and activist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Sweeney
date created:
2016-09-10T03:30:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T05:51:38Z
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