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Ruth Johnson Colvin

Ruth Johnson Colvin
Ruth Johnson Colvin, American author and educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide

Ruth Johnson Colvin is the founder of the non-profit organization Literacy Volunteers of America, now called ProLiteracy Worldwide in Syracuse, New York, in 1962. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in December 2006. She turned 100 in December 2016.

16 December 1916

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