THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Sheribel Rothenberg
“I saw the clubs as very symbolic of the exclusionary process of women from the mainstream of money and power. I thought, Well, let’s sue them.”
Attorney. Author. Advocate for Civil, Women’s and Human rights. Chairperson, The Chicago Coalition Against Rape, 1974. Head of the Illinois ACLU Women’s Rights Committee.
Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, May 2023
Photo. Sheribel Rothenberg, 1987.
More About Sheribel:
- “When push comes to shove, should laid-off journalists sue? Terminations of newspaper employees aren’t what they used to be—just ask labor lawyer Sheribel Rothenberg.” ChicagoReader.com, by Michael Miner May 22, 2013
- Select newspaper clippings 1972 – 1993
- Chicago Women’s History Center oral history interview by Charlotte Adelman for the WBAI Lawyers Project