THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Aileen Clarke Hernandez
(1926-2017)
“A Pioneer for Women and Civil Rights”
Equal Employment Opportunity Council. NOW’s second president. Vice chairperson ACLU’s National Advisory Council. Labor organizer International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. First woman commissioner EEOC. Co-chair National Urban Coalition. Helped found National Women’s Political Caucus, NOW’s Minority Women’s Task Force and Sapphire Publishing Company.
Makers – Published 2014
Photos. Aileen Hernandez (Photo 1 by Bill Young, The Chronicle, 1977).
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More About Aileen:
- Celebration of Life – Black Women Stirring The Waters Vision Committee
- Aileen Hernandez speaks at the VFA Celebrates 40 Years of Title VII Conference. Newton, MA, May 1, 2004
- Commonwealth Club of California – 1972 – Aileen speaks – Women’s Liberation: What’s It All About?
- Papers – Sophia Smith Collection
- VFA bids farewell to Aileen
- The History Makers
- The ACLU Remembers Aileen
- National Womens History Project
- Black Past
- African American Women’s Institute@ Howard University
- ThoughtCo.
- Wikipedia
- Advisory Board and Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – page 210