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Dovie Thurman
Little Dovie Thurman (1946 - April 7, 1997) was a community activist who dedicated her life to the social and political development of poor communities. She is most known for her involvement in Chicago welfare rights campaign of the 1960s. Thurman worked toward welfare rights and reform with a local organization on the north side of the city called J.O.I.N. (Jobs or Income Now), as well as Uptown Voices advocating for quality, affordable housing for low-income people in Uptown, Chicago and its surrounding communities. As President, Dovie worked to empower community members through participation in housing advocacy, development, rehabilitation and management.
== Personal life ==
Dovie Thurman was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1946. She was known as Little Dovie by family and friends after her aunt Dovie Coleman, or Big Dovie. Dovie’s father passed when she was only 1 year old leaving her to be raised by her grandmother. In 1965, after years of living in an all black community in St. Louis, Missouri Thurman and her two children at the time moved back to Chicago where she settled in the Uptown neighborhood. She was 19 years old and married to a man stationed in Vietnam.〔A Conversation with Studs Terkel: Dovie Thurman 06 Mar. 1997. Web.〕
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