Carol Ruth Silver
Carol Ruth Silver | |
|---|---|
Silver in 1983 | |
| Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors | |
| In office January 8, 1981 – January 8, 1989 | |
| Preceded by | District established |
| Succeeded by | Terence Hallinan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 1, 1938 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Profession | Attorney |
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Carol Ruth Silver (born October 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and civil rights activist. She was a Freedom Rider, arrested and incarcerated for 40 days in Mississippi. She was among those on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors allegedly targeted by Dan White in the Moscone–Milk assassinations, but escaped assassination because she was not in her office at the time of the murders.