mary morello (born 1924) is an american activist who in 1987 founded the anti-censorship group parents for rock and rap. she is sometimes referred to as tipper gore's nemesisreference lost see talk page. in the 1980s battle over music censorship. ==biography== mary was born in 1924 in marseilles, illinois. in 1954 she earned a masters degree in african and latin american history from chicago's loyola university. she spent the rest of the decade teaching english in germany, spain and japan, circling the globe on a freighter. from 1960 to 1963, she lived in kenya, where she married her husband ngethe njoroge, a kenyan revolutionary who later was the first kenyan delegate to the united nations. he was a guerrilla in the mau mau uprising (1950â1960) that arguably led to kenya's independence from british rule. in the 1960s she was involved in the civil rights movement and naacp. she is also a long time activist for the chicago urban league. in 1964 she and her husband moved to harlem, new york, where she gave birth to son tom morello. after her divorce when tom was on
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