Re: Flo Kennedy

[Michael Hoover <hoov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> NY Times, December 23, 2000
> By DOUGLAS MARTIN
> Florynce Kennedy, a lawyer and political activist whose flamboyant attire
> and sometimes outrageous comments drew attention to her fierce struggle for
> civil rights and feminism, died on Thursday in her Manhattan apartment. She
> was 84.
> Known to everyone as Flo, recognizable everywhere in cowboy hat and pink
> sunglasses, she was one of the first black women to graduate from Columbia
> Law School, where she was admitted after threatening a discrimination suit.
> She fought in the courts and on the streets for abortion rights,
> represented Black Panthers, was a founding member of the National Women's
> Political Caucus and led a mass urination by women protesting a lack of
> women's restrooms at Harvard.
> Louis Proyect

I heard her speak in early 70's, she was great...one of my all-time
favorite quotes is by Flo Kennedy:
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
Michael Hoover