THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Kipp Dawson
“My first major activity in the women’s movement was sitting in Betty Friedan’s living room. We were a group which included Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Gloria Steinem, Kate Millett and other people whose names are also well-known alongside people whose names are not so well known.”
Activist, Organizer, Author, Coal Miner and Educator. United Mine Workers. Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from New York, 1970.
Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, April 2023
Photo 1. Kipp and her mom at ERA March, 1978 (Photo courtesy of Ginny Hildrebrand). Photo 2. Fight for $15, 2015.
More About Kipp:
- Website, “The Struggle is the Victory”
- Kipp Dawson Standing Up through the years
- Panel discussion “Women in Coal and Steel” with Steffi Domike, Kipp Dawson and Amy Niehouse, The Pennsylvania Labor History Society and the Battle of Homestead Foundation “Annual Commemoration of the History of Working People” at the Windber Slovak Educational Club. April 2023
- Kenzie New-Walker chats with Kipp Dawson, Libby Lindsay, Marat Moore, and Dr. Jessie Wilkerson about their careers in the coal mine industry and their ongoing work in telling and preserving this important piece of American History. March 2022
- “Death of a Jewish Radical” Event Explores Unsolved 1922 Erie Murder, by Jordana Rosenfeld, May 2022.
- Kipp Dawson – From Coal Mine to Classroom
- “The Power of Women United,” Against the Current, No. 134, May/June 2008
- Archives
- Guide to the Kipp M. Dawson Papers, 1951-2021, The University of Pittsburgh Libraries Archives and Special Collections
- Kipp Dawson Papers, Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University
- Kipp Dawson and Ellen Yarashevsky, UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
- Gay Liberation, a Socialist Perspective, by Kipp Dawson for The Young Socialist, June 1975
- Madwomen in the Attic website