THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Edith Kokernot Grinnell
“The Women’s Rights movement impacted my life by giving me the courage to accept the challenge of change.” – Edith Kokernot Grinnell
Author. Equal Rights Advocate. National Women’s Conference Houston 1977.
Courtesy of the Share Your Stories From ’77 project. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. November 6, 2017
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Photo 1. Edith Kokernot Grinnell, 1944. Photo 2. Edith with her children: Peggy, Walter, Jan and Diana. Photo 3. Diana sharing Peggy’s 1977 moment on Time Magazine with Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s Conference.
Photo in video Copyright © Diana Mara Henry / www.dianamarahenry.com
More About the Kokernot’s:
- Edith Kokernot Grinnell – Through the Years
- Stories by Edith Babcock Grinnell
- The Last Mile – a story of what the future will hold
- It Happened in May – a story about a cherished friendship and of the hopes and dreams of two inseparable young girls from a small Texas town in the 1930’s.
- National Women’s Conference 1977
- Special Collections and University Archives at UMass-Amherst
- Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Audiotape collection of the National Women’s Conference, 1977