I’m grateful that The New York Times of December 16, 2022, took notice of the life, work, and death of Dorothy Pitman Hughes. It is a measure of the progress she helped to create that she is understood to be a pioneer of civil rights, early childhood education, battered women’s shelters, and the women’s liberation movement she helped to create and spread nationally.
Yet each of us who worked with her and loved her has knowledge to share, if all of us are to have a picture of who she was and the power of one person to influence history. FOR MORE
