THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Diane Crothers
“Waiting for a good quote………………..”
Civil rights attorney and lifelong advocate for equal treatment of women and people of color. Co-founder of the Women’s Rights Law Reporter, former Deputy Commissioner for Citywide Equal Employment Opportunity and New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services. Early member of Redstockings and Co-founder of New York Radical Feminists and Project Second Chance, a career development program for women.
Photo 1. Diane Crothers, 1972.
More About Diane:
- Diane Crothers Oral History January – March 2022, Rutgers Oral History Archives
- “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a 2014 American documentary film about some of the women involved in the second wave feminism movement. Directed by Mary Dore and co-produced by Nancy Kennedy. Susan Brownmiller credits Diane for bringing the newspaper, “It Ain’t Me Babe” and urges everyone at the NY Radical Feminists consciousness-raising meeting to read the article on Rape. After everyone had read this story, Crothers announced that rape was an important feminist issue and that it should be explored by the group. Brownmiller credits Diane and others at that meeting with changing her mind on rape in her landmark book, Against Our Will.
- A Woman’s Worth Podcast – Diane Crothers segment begins at 32:22 (includes clips from the Dick Cavett show, 1970)
- Former Rutgers Law School students, colleagues reflect on the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, January 2021
- Rutgers helped shape Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Watch as former students remember, September 2020
- Diana’s remarks (begin at 1:19:12) during the Women Writing Women’s Lives seminar C-SPAN, December 2000
- Kay Lindsey discusses the group, New York Radical Feminists, with members of its Stanton-Anthony Brigade, Martha Gershun, Anne Koedt, and Diane Crothers. February 1970
- Select newspaper clippings 1971-2000
- Archives
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, pages 103 – 104