VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: JIM ROBSON – Veteran Feminists of America

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Jim Robson

“As I came to NOW and went to that first board meeting, I immediately adopted the label as a feminist. I identified as a feminist and I have ever since.”

Organizer, lifelong advocate for civil rights and women’s rights. National Organization for Women.

Interviewed by Kathy Rand, VFA Executive VP, July 2022

Robson and Betty Friedan at Barnard VFA 1996

Robson and Joanne Evans Gardner at 1996 Barnard event

Photo 1. Jim with Betty Friedan at VFA event, NOW’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, NYC, 1996. Photo 2. Jim with Jo Ann Evansgardner at VFA event, NOW’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, NYC, 1996.

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More About Jim:

Select newspaper clippings
- Even Grandmother is Joining “Women’s Lib,” July 19, 1970
- Members of NOW Fight Discrimination According to Sex, July 2, 1969
Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, pages 387 – 388