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She moved to Pittsburgh in 1953 and worked in the gubernatorial campaign of Mayor David L. Lawrence in 1958.

She also headed the Western Pennsylvania presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and George McGovern in 1972 ; headed the unsuccessful campaign to get NAACP President Byrd Brown the Democratic nomination to Congress ; and was co-chairman with Mayor Joseph M. Barr of the unsuccessful U. S. Senate campaign of Jeanette Reibman in 1976.