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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: BONNIE HOWARDadmin2022-01-11T16:30:11-05:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Bonnie Howard

“My career wouldn’t have happened if it hadn’t been for the women’s movement.”

Early member of NOW. Elected national treasurer  in 1973; created financial systems to handle the work of the three national NOW offices in Chicago, NYC and Washington, D.C. Board of NOW Legal Defense Fund 1979-1995, served as treasurer and president. Served as president and treasurer of her local Cape Ann/North Shore (MA) chapter of NOW. Founding member of the North Shore Coalition to Protect Choice in 2002. A convener of Women’s Action for New Directions North Shore, MA chapter. A.B. from Radcliffe College in 1956. M.B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1965: was the only woman in her class and one of the first woman graduates of the University of Michigan business school.

Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Historian, November 2021

Read the Transcript

More About Bonnie:

  • Records – Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
    • Records of the National Organization for Women, 1959-2002 (inclusive), 1966-1998 (bulk)
    • Series XXVIII. ERA. Financial 
    • Bonnie Howard, interviewed by Gene Boyer, 1993
    • NOW “Split” roundtable discussion – Gene Boyer, Mary Jean Collins, Muriel Fox, Bonnie Howard, Ethel Klein and Mary Jean Tully.
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s book Feminists Who Changed America – page 225

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