The Lasting Legacy of Florynce Kennedy, Black Feminist Fighter
Against The Current vol. 152
Randolph, Sherie M.
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3272
Date Written: 2011-05-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13774
Several decades after the 1960s political upheavals, very few people recognize the name of the Black feminist lawyer and activist Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916-2000). However, during the late 1960s and 1970s Kennedy was the country’s most well-known Black feminist. When reporting on the emergence of the women’s movement, the media covered her early membership in the National Organization for Women (NOW), her leadership of countless guerilla theatre protests and her work as a lawyer helping to repeal New York’s restrictive abortion laws. Indeed, Black feminist Jane Galvin-Lewis and white feminists Gloria Steinem and Ti-Grace Atkinson credit Kennedy with helping to educate a generation of young women about feminism in particular and radical political organizing more generally.
