Dorothy pitman hughes biography of michael

The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women’s movement.
Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a transformative community organizer in New York City in the s who shared the stage with Gloria Steinem for 5 years, captivating audiences around the country. After leaving rural Georgia in the s, she moved to New York, determined to fight for civil rights and equality. Historian Laura L. Lovett traces Hughes’s journey as she became a powerhouse activist, responding to the needs of her community and building a platform for its empowerment. She created lasting change by revitalizing her West Side neighborhood, which was subjected to racial discrimination, with nonexistent childcare and substandard housing, where poverty, drug use, a lack of job training, and the effects of the Vietnam War were evident. Hughes created a high-quality childcare center that also offered job training, adult education classes, a Youth Action corps, housing assistance, and food resources.
Hughes’s realization that her neighborhood could be revitalized by actively engaging and including the community was prescient and is startlingly relevant. As her stature grew to a national level, Hughes spent several years traversing the country with Steinem and educating people about feminism, childcare, and race. She moved to Harlem in the s to counter gentrification and bought the franchise to the Miss Greater New York City pageant to demonstrate that Black was beautiful. She also opened an office supply store and became a powerful voice for Black women entrepreneurs and Black-owned businesses. Throughout every phase of her life, Hughes understood the transformative power of activism for Black communities.
With expert research, which includes Hughes’s

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Dorothy Pitman Hughes who brought black women into the 70s Feminist movement and inspired Gloria Steinem.

Raquel Welch (pictured), the Hollywood actor who became a Sixties sex symbol after playing a cavewoman in the film 'One Million Years BC'.

The aeronautical engineer Ralph Hooper OBE who designed the revolutionary Harrier jump jet.

And Dickie Davies, the sports presenter best known for anchoring ITV Saturday afternoons in the 70s and 80s.

Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Laura L Lovett

Interviewed guest: Professor John Fielding

Interviewed guest: Sir Colin Chandler

Interviewed guest: Jim Rosenthal

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COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - A pioneer with roots stretching from Lumpkin to Columbus all the way to the Big Apple is being remembered for her one-of-a-kind drive to help the world.

Her name is Dorothy Hughes.

The feminist, child-welfare advocate, African-American activist, public speaker, author, and small business owner will be buried tomorrow after passing away last week.

She leaves behind quite the legacy.. News Leader 9′s Roslyn Giles has a look at her accomplishments.

Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a feminist, child-welfare advocate, activist, public speaker, author, and small business owner. She’s also the co-founder of Ms. Magazine and Women’s Action Alliance with famed women’s activist Gloria Steinem.

She was born and raised in Lumpkin, Georgia… after seeing her father beaten nearly to death by the Ku Klux Klan she moved to New York where she immediately started to make her mark on the world.

Dorothy Pitman Hughes organized the first shelter for battered women in New York City and co-founded the New York City Agency for Child Development, pioneering child-care.

She has so many accomplishments… we can’t name them all.

Here’s a quick antidote that hopefully gives you an idea of her prominence and the legacy she leaves behind.

As a black woman in the late 60′s She was able to convince the mayor of New York to move a group of welfare mothers from a condemned apartment complex in Manhattan to the Waldorf Astoria …a luxury hotel on Park Avenue!

She bought the franchise to the Miss Greater New York City pageant to demonstrate that Black was beautiful.

She had a year career of community organizing and entrepreneurship in New York City, from her founding of a community-controlled child care center on the upper West side, to her cross-country speaking tours on women’s liberation with Gloria Steinem, to fighting racism in the Miss America pageant and working for the empowerment of Black business women in Harlem.

Hughes’ burial was held at Mt. Olive Primitive Bapt