THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Richard A. Graham
November 6, 1920 – September 24, 2007
“What We Need is a Political Force For Women’s Rights.” – Richard Graham to Betty Friedan
First director of the Peace Corps, 1961. One of the inaugural group of five members of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 1965. Founding director of the National Teachers Corps, 1966. Elected as National Organization for Women Vice-President during NOW’s first organizing conference, October 1966. Founded the District of Columbia Commission on the Status of Women. Served as the Executive Director of the Center for Moral Development at Harvard. Named President of Goddard College, where he helped found the Goddard-Cambridge Center for Social Change, one of the earliest centers for women’s studies, 1975. Founding Member of Veteran Feminists of America.
More About Richard:
- Obituary, The New York Times
- National Organization for Women, Honoring Our Founders & Pioneers
- “Idea is Old, the Group is NOW,” by Delores Alexander, Newsday, November 1966
- Richard was a guest at the following Veteran Feminists of America events
- Salute to ERA Activists, Sewall Belmont House, Washington, DC May 6, 1999
- Celebration of NOW’s 30th Anniversary, November 1996
- Salute to Catherine East at Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City, May 1993
- Archives
- Wikipedia page
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 184
