THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Rosalie M. Abrams
October 13, 1921 – January 4, 2010
“No more wars and no more put-downs for any human being on earth, no matter what sex or color, and from the first day of birth.” – The theme of Rosalie Abrams play, ‘Myth America, How Far Have You Really Come?’ December 1976
Founded the Orange County chapter of the National Organization for Women, 1969. Founded the Orange County Feminist Repertory Theatre in 1971; and secured the lease, with her husband, for the county’s first Feminist Women’s Health Center in 1973. She was a leader in the Unitarian Church of Orange County.
More About Rosalie:
- Obituary
- She’s Been a Feminist From Then Till NOW: Rosalie Abrams looks back on Roots of the Cause, by Russ Loar, The Los Angeles Times, April 14, 1997
- How ‘Myth America’ Saved NOW, January 1982
- NOW founder to address Nurses, September 1975
- Playwright puts sex roles to song – Rosalie Gresser Abrams talks to Ventura College students about different kinds of sex discrimination. December 1976
- Wikipedia page
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 3
