THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Jean Hunt
“I think some people are born with the right kind of personality to do organizing, which is a degree of intense interest in other people and willingness to go into places where you don’t know your way around…but you’re willing to go and learn and listen.”
Lifelong advocate for justice: civil rights, the anti-war movement, the grape boycott, the women’s movement and neighborhood organizing. Organizer of the Women’s Health Movement in Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women. Campaign for Working Families. Bread and Roses Community Fund.
Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, November 2023
More About Jean:
- Select newspaper clippings
- “Every Woman Deserves the Right to Choose” Event: Abortion Rights, March and Rally, Prints D 1170 – D 1172. JoAnne Fischer organized this effort with Jean Hunt In Support of Women’s Lives, a national counter demonstration at the National Right to Life meeting in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, July 17, 1982
- Bread and Roses Community Fund
- Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women
- The Model Cities Program, an element of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty.
- Farmworker movement documentation project.
