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Sonia's trip to Russia, July, 2004.
Sonia’s trip to her alma mater, Cornell University, April 22, 2009
Christ Church and St. Hilda’s College, Oxford; London; and Cardiff, Wales, 2009

Some, but not all, of the pictures in this slide show have captions that identify what is in the picture. When you click on a picture, you will see an enlargement of it and to the right of the picture you will see a caption that identifies it. If that caption does not appear, it may be because that picture does not have a caption, but it may also be because you have to do the following for the caption to appear. On the left-hand side of the upper tool bar against a white background, there is a lower-case "i" in a circle next to an arrow. Click on that "i" and if that slide has a caption, it will appear to the right of the picture. Once a caption appears for one picture, it will appear for all and you do not have to click the "i" again. When you want to exit that picture, click on the arrow to the left of the"i."
Chautauqua Institution, 2010
The Chautauqua Institution is a nonprofit education center and summer resort for adults and youth located on 2,070 acres in Chautauqua, New York, 17 miles northwest of Jamestown in the Western Southern Tier of New York State. Sonia spent a week there on several occasions, during one of which she was a speaker to the Road Scholars group at the Atheneum Hotel. Sonia took various photographs at Chautauqua from June 27-July 3, 2010.

Follow this link to the photo collection. To enlarge any picture and see its caption, if it has a caption, click on the image.
Sonia and friends at a cocktail and dinner party she gave on February 19, 2010, at Miguel's restaurant on Siesta Key
Washington DC, 2011
12-minute slide show with captions of trip to Germany and Belgium, Sept. 4-14, 2011
Sonia donating books to students at the Booker Middle School, Sarasota, FL, June 4, 2012
Antwerp, Belgium and Amsterdam, the Netherlands pictures--opening of Red Star Line Museum Sept. 24-28, 2013

Sonia Pressman Fuentes

Sonia (center) with the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray (in red) and Dr. Bernice (Bunny) Sandler (wearing a white jacket), circa 1965-73. This is from the Archival Collections, Women in the Legal Profession, at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

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Papers of Sonia Pressman Fuentes, ca.1929-1990

Sonia Pressman Fuentes was born in 1928 in Berlin, Germany. In 1933, she left Germany with her parents to escape the Nazis and moved to Antwerp, Belgium. In April 1934, they immigrated to the United States and eventually settled in the Catskills in New York State. In 1950, she graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in liberal arts. In 1957, she graduated summa cum laude from the University of Miami Law School. From 1965 to 1973, Fuentes became the first woman to work for the Office of General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She later became the chief of the Legislative Counsel Division of the General Counsel's Office. Her responsibilities included enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Fuentes attended the 1966 organizing conference for the National Organization for Women (NOW) and helped found other feminist organizations.