Rest in Peace and Power, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, who passed away on December 1. Hughes was a Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong activist who co-founded Ms. Magazine with Gloria Steinem. Dorothy Pitman Hughes was born 1938 in Lumpkin, Georgia. After her father’s brutal attack by the KKK, she decided as a child in reaction to her family's experiences she would devote her life to improving the circumstances of people through activism. Pitman Hughes moved from Georgia to New York City in 1957. Through the 1960s in New York, she worked as a salesperson, house cleaner, and nightclub singer. She began her activism by raising bail money for civil rights protesters. In the late 1960s, needing care for her own children, she organized a multiracial cooperative day care center on the West Side, the West 80th Community Childcare Center. She also 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 and noting that "too many women were being forced to leave their children home alone while they worked to feed their families". Pitman Hughes also co-founded with Steinem the Women's Action Alliance, a pioneering national information center that specialized in nonsexist, multiracial children's education, in 1971. In 1972, Pitman Hughes was a signer of the Ms. campaign "We Have Had Abortions" which called for an end to "archaic laws" limiting reproductive freedom, they encouraged women to share their stories and take action. In 1992, Pitman Hughes co-founded the Charles Junction Historic Preservation Society in Jacksonville, Florida, using the former Junction homestead to combat poverty through community gardening and food production. 📸: The Richard Avendon Foundation. Text source: Wikipedia. #blackwomenradicals #dorothypitmanhughes