THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Joanna Foley
“The women’s liberation movement and bra destruction have nothing to do with each other.” – Joanna Foley, Chicago Journalism Review, 1971
Chicago Chapter of National Organization For Women. First chair of the Chicago NOW Public Relations committee. Advertising Manager for The Spokeswoman. Chicago Urban League. Social worker. Unitarian Universalist leader.
Interviewed by Kathy Rand, VFA Executive VP, August 2021
Joanna Foley
More About Joanna:
- Joanna Winston-Foley, “Rescuing the Revolutionary Black Patriots from the Shadows of History”.
- Joanna Winston-Foley: African Americans in Greensboro’s historic public art: Are some histories more visible than others? February 5, 2023
- Minding Our Monuments Podcast
- Descendants of Heroes, Black Revolutionary War Soldier
- Racial Disparities in Public Art with Jose Vasquez of Monument Lab
- African American Sculptures and Sculptors with Ernest Hooker
- Black Soldiers in the Revolutionary War with Trevor Freeman and John Rees
- “Thank you for your service: Honoring Hidden Heroes,” by Joanna Winston Foley, Greensboro News & Record, May 29, 2022
- “Minding Our Monuments,” by Joanna Foley, January 16, 2022
- The Spokeswoman, National Feminist News Monthly records
- Joanna Winston Foley: Should my ancestor’s statue in Greensboro come down? Aug 16, 2020
- Select newspaper clippings 1970-1971
- 3-part series for the Chicago American by Joanna Foley Martin 1972
- BAMPFA must ensure that more African Americans see the Rosie Lee Tompkins quilt exhibit, by Joanna Foley, Berkeleyside, January 2020
- The Times: Are They A-Changing?, by Joanna Foley, October 1978
- “Foremother” Rabb, by Joanna Foley, October 1977
- Sexism Scorecard, by Joanna Foley, October 1977
- Confessions of a Non-Bra Burner, by Joanna Foley, The Chicago Journalism Review, July 1971
- National Organization for Women, Chicago Chapter Records, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago
