THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Catherine “Katie” Roraback
September 17, 1920 – October 17, 2007
“It’s not a first wave, a second wave, or a third wave. We’ve had a continual movement of the ocean, sometimes a little ebb tide here or there, but we keep on fighting.”
Attorney, activist, a founder of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, president of the National Lawyers Guild and an ACLU board member. Best known for convincing the U.S. Supreme Court that women had a right to privacy, and therefore to information about contraception, in a landmark case Griswold v. Connecticut that laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court’s subsequent Roe v. Wade decision on abortion.
Catherine “Katie” Roraback, “Feminism and Its Values, an Intergenerational Dialogue,” April 16, 2005, Cromwell CT
More About Katie:
- Obituary, The New York Times
- Catherine G. Roraback (1920-2007), Connecticut History – A CT Humanities Project
- Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame
- Catherine Roraback Interview, February, 2003, Oral History Archive of the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame
- Archives
- Wikipedia
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 391