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Celebrating Second Wave Feminists & their work focusing on building lasting legacies and dynamic bridges with current day feminists.

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06/18/2026

Feminist historian, sociologist and author Leonore Davidoff helped create the Feminist Library in London in 1975 and was founding editor of the academic journal “Gender & History.” She played a central role in establishing the International Federation for Research in Women’s History. Find out more: https://veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-histories-project-leonore-davidoff/

06/16/2026

“Every once in a while, I stop to wonder how differently our country would look now without a war. Would we be able to afford universal health care? Would we be able to house all our homeless? Would we be able to finance all our children to provide the education they want? Would our wealth be distributed more equally? Would our corporations be less corrupt?” – Dorothy Eppstein (1918-2010), pilot, author, chemist, educator, co-founder of NOW chapter, Kalamazoo. https://veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-histories-project-dorothy-eppstein/

06/11/2026

Leah Napolin made her playwriting debut on Broadway in 1975 with “Yentl.” She taught music at a private school in Venezuela; Comparative Literature at Ohio State University; founded a program in creative writing for the inmates of the Ohio Reformatory for Women; and was Associate Editor at Choice Magazine Listening, an audio anthology for visually-impaired subscribers. Find out more https://veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-histories-project-leah-napolin-2/

06/09/2026

Lois Ablin Kriesberg helped establish the Central New York chapter of NOW in the late 1960s; and was a founding member and first vice president of the Women’s Bar Association of Central New York. “I think her own experiences convinced her there was an inequality between women and men. She didn’t just want to talk about it. She wanted to change things.” Karen DeCrow, 2010 https://veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-histories-project-lois-ablin-kriesberg/

06/04/2026

Beatrice “Bede” Urich, artist; a founder of Milwaukee, WI NOW, 1968 and a founder of Santa Monica, CA NOW, early 1970’s. She worked on the first pass for the chronology of Feminist Chronicles, when volunteers at National NOW Times were assembling a draft covering feminist activity, 1966-1979. Find out more at https://veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-histories-project-beatrice-urich/

06/02/2026

Gerald “Jerry” Fox, pioneering feminist attorney, member of the Board of Editors of Yale Law School, was elected vice president of the New York Chapter of NOW. He handled NOW’s case against New York City newspapers that ran separate help-wanted ads for men and women. Find out more: https://veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-histories-project-gerald-fox/

05/28/2026

Irene Dankelman, environmental activist, professor, ecologist and author from Haarlem, Netherlands, supported marginalized groups around the world. VP, Board of Trustees, WECE (Women Engage for a Common Future); Chair, Board of WEDO (established by Bella Abzug and Mim Kelber); authored educational books “Women Can Be Key to Saving the Earth”; “Women and the Environment in the Third World”; and “Gender and Climate Change.” Find out more: https://veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-histories-project-irene-dankelman/

05/26/2026

“When it comes to global warming, extreme weather, overpopulation, and the diminishment of planet earth, eco political artist Janet Culbertson has had her eye on the storm for over forty years.” – Janet Goleas, Islip Museum. Find out more about Janet Culbertson https://veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-histories-project-janet-culbertson/

05/22/2026

"Educating women about credit rights and what they could do with those rights was an amazing thing." – Kay Walker Cole, past president of the Women’s Southwest Federal Credit Union, Women’s Issues Network, Women’s Center of Dallas, Texas Abortion Rights Action Leagues, North Dallas NOW. https://veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-histories-project-kay-walker-cole/

05/20/2026

“Mickey Flacks will be remembered as a longtime active member and chair of the Santa Barbara County Housing Authority, a member of the Democratic Party central committee, a past chair of the ACLU, a pioneer in working for affirmative action policies in local government, and as being active in a number of local electoral campaigns over the past 50 years.” Find out more https://veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-histories-project-mickey-flacks/

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