THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Sue Straus
“Know Your Past to Understand Today.”
Founder and member of the Women’s Studies committee at Northeastern University. Chicago chapter — National Organization for Women Vice President. Illinois NOW State President. Chicago NOW Legal and Education Fund President. Working Women’s History Project President, Vice President. American Civil Liberties Union. Lifelong activist for women’s rights.
Interviewed by Mary-Ann Lupa, July 2019
Photo 1. Sue Straus. Photo 2. Sara, Becky, Sue and Paloma of Chicago Now at the 2019 National Now Conference in MN.
More About Sue:
- NPR – National Organization for Women at 40
- Working Women’s History Project
- The Right to Vote – Chicago Tribune August 25, 1998
- National Organization for Women, Chicago Chapter Records, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book – Feminists Who Changed America – page 448
