Laura Johnston Kohl

INTRODUCTION TO LAURA JOHNSTON KOHL
Laura Johnston Kohl was a teen activist working to integrate public facilities in the Washington, D.C., area. She actively fought for civil rights and free speech, and against the Vietnam War throughout the 1960s.

She was devastated by the assassinations of so many courageous leaders while in high school and college and tried to make the world around her more humane. After trying to effect change single-handedly, she found she needed more hands. She joined Peoples Temple in 1970, living and working in the progressive religious movement in both California and Guyana.

A fluke saved her from the mass murders and suicides on November 18, 1978, when 913 of her beloved friends died in Jonestown.
Soon after this,

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