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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: MARGARET SLOAN-HUNTERadmin2020-06-02T08:24:26-04:00

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

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