THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Margaret Sloan-Hunter
May 31, 1947 – September 23, 2004
“I Am a Black and Female Person that Lives in a Country that is Sexist and Racist.”
Poet. Organizer. Activist. Founding Editor of Ms. Magazine. Co-Founder, First and Only President of National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO). Co-founder of Lavender Woman. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Founded the Junior Catholic Inter-Racial Council at age 17.
Photo 1. Gloria Steinem and Margaret, 1973. Photo 2. Ms. staff meeting in June 1972. From left: Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Gloria Steinem, Margaret Sloan-Hunter, Suzanne Levine, Mary Thom, Harriet Lyons, Patricia Carbine, and Ruth Sullivan. [Photo: Nancy Crampton]
Photo credit: Bettye Lane
More About Margaret:
- Sandra Elkin interviews Margaret Sloan, “Woman; Margaret Sloan on Black Sisterhood,” 1974-08-04, WNED, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress)
- Keynote speech from the “Incentive to Action” conference on women 1974
- Interview with Margaret Sloan – 1974, The Tide pages 3, 22 – 24
- Gloria Steinem and Margaret Sloan-Hunter speak at the Brooklyn Montessori School – May 15, 1973
- Lavender Woman
- Wikipedia
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – page 429