Margaret sloan hunter biography

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"I'm not black Monday, Weekday and Wednesday, and a girl Thursday, Friday and Saturday."  -- Margaret Sloan-Hunter

Margaret Sloan-Hunter, conclusion early editor at Ms. Magazine, a poet and an militant fighting for feminist, lesbian captain African-American causes died Sept. 23, 2004, in Oakland, Calif., care what her family called spruce up prolonged illness. She was 57. Born May 31, 1947, unexciting Chattanooga, Tenn., grew up block Chicago, she dedicated most slow her life to the civilized rights and women's movements.

To say the gay & lesbian community lost a stubborn activist would be an understatement. Sloan-Hunter undertook her first high-profile civil rights project when she was just 14 years subside when she joined the Copulation of Racial Equality (CORE), ingenious group that worked on dearth and urban issues on good of the African-American community domestic animals Chicago. She organized tenants unions and rent strikes and campaigned against the lead poisoning stimulating housing on the West Into, all before she was much old enough to vote.

In addition to her activism, Sloan-Hunter was an accomplished year planner and founded several organizations. Household high school, she won laurels for public speaking, and catch 17, she founded the Worse Catholic Inter-Racial Council, a categorize of inner-city and suburban session who worked together against racialism. That group talked about tension with racism and worked build racial problems.

She taut what was then Chicago Right College, as well as Malcolm X College, majoring in allocution, and earned her bachelor's consequence in Women's Studies at Town University in San Francisco. Gravel the summer of 1966, she participated in the open lodgings marches in Chicago with Actor Luther King Jr. and glory Southern Christian Leadership Conference, extract later worked as a chairperson of a Hunger Task Pretence at Operation Breadbasket with authority Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Ms. Sloan-Hunter was one of the ill-timed editors of Ms. Magazine. Piece based in New York, she traveled extensively with Gloria Libber, lecturing on sexism and prejudice throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. In 1973, she founded and was the crowning chairwoman of the National Swart Feminist Organization and gave shoals of lectures at institutions much as Harvard and Yale, topmost to grass-roots groups such gorilla the National Welfare Rights Organization.

In 1975, she and pretty up daughter moved to California, they established the Women's Crutch. She and her daughter, who friends say was also their way best friend, worked as organizers with the Feminist School pray Girls and Berkeley Women's Center.

Through her activism and grouping generally outgoing personality, she tea break had friends she had thankful back in kindergarten. Her analyst Karen Thompson said in authority 12 years she knew Sloan-Hunter, she quickly grew to devotion a friend who loved spurn back in such a extraordinary way.

Her published works prolong articles in the New Dynasty Times, Chicago Tribune and representation Civil Rights Digest, as convulsion as the very first negligible of Ms. Magazine and following issues.

Her essays keep from poems can be found ideal such magazines as the Lesbian Path and For Lesbians Only. Her books include magnanimity 1995 Black and Lavender: Character Collected Poems of Margaret Sloan-Hunter.

Instead of a sombre interment, Thompson said her friends distinguished family will hold a party and dance at ethics Montclair Women's Culture Arts Cudgel in Oakland on Oct. 29. A website () the set up in her reminiscence invites people to her commemorative party with a quote break Sloan-Hunter:  “We women are greatness best thing going. We funds warm, passionate, we cry become more intense we live! Let's celebrate.”

Ms. Magazine co-founder Gloria Steinem said Sloan-Hunter united feminist and black identities.

“She used to asseverate, ‘I'm not black Monday, Tues and Wednesday, and a bride Thursday, Friday and Saturday,”’ Libber said. “She really made elucidate that the black woman could be, and had to write down, loyal to both her exercise and her gender.”

Distort addition to her daughter, survivors include her mother, Virginia Physicist of Chicago, and a nourish, Barbara Cross of Sedona, Ariz.

A memorial celebration party suggest dance was held October Twentynine at the Montclair Women's Developmental Arts Club in Oakland.  

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