THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Kathy Rand
“Young Women Need To Know What We Went Through.”
Organizer, Activist, Public Relations specialist. PR chair of Chicago NOW. Midwest Regional Director of NOW (1971-1974). Founding chair of Women Employed. Women in Communications. Veteran Feminists of America Board of Directors and Executive VP; co-chair of Pioneer Histories Project.
Part 1 Interviewed by Kathy’s niece, Madi Moran, October 2020
Part 2 Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Historian, July 2021
Photo 1. Kathy speaking as Midwest Director of NOW. Photo 2. NOW meeting in Kathy’s Chicago apartment. Left to right, Ann Scott, Betty Friedan, Judith Lonnquist, Mary-Ann Lupa, Susan Dean, Kathy Rand. Photo 3. With Studs Terkel. Photo 4. Demonstrating in front of Sears, Roebuck’s headquarters on Women’s Equality Day, 1974.
More About Kathy:
- Veteran Feminists of America
- VFA Fabulous Feminist Biography
- Monitor, Sharing Our Stories, Durham, NC, 2017
- Co-Chair, Labor and the Women’s Movement, St. Louis, MO, 2014
- The Unfinished Business of the Women’s Movement, Chicago, IL 2004
- Archives
- Kathy Rand National Organization for Women papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
- Specific NOW documents, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
- National Organization for Women, Chicago Chapter Records, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Midwest Academy (Chicago, Ill.) records (Chicago History Museum)
- Chicago Women’s History Center oral history interview 2004
- Newspaper clippings
- Prabook
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – page 373