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Florynce Rae Kennedy (February 11, 1916 – December 21, 2000) was an American lawyer, radical feminist, civil rights advocate, lecturer, and activist.
Diversas décadas após as convulsões políticas da década de 1960, pouquíssimas pessoas reconhecem o nome da advogada e ativista feminista negra Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916–2000). No entanto, durante o final dos anos 1960 e 1970, Kennedy era a feminista negra mais conhecida do país.
- Aline Rossi
25 de fev. de 2021 · Learn about the life and activism of Florynce Kennedy ’51, a Black feminist lawyer who challenged racial and gender discrimination in the 1960s and ’70s. She represented controversial clients, founded the Feminist Party, and helped legalize abortion in New York.
In 1974, People magazine called Florynce (Flo) Kennedy “the biggest, loudest and, indisputably, the rudest mouth on the battleground where feminist activists and radical politics join in mostly common cause.” A lawyer, civil rights and women’s rights advocate, and gadfly, Kennedy was delighted with the accolade.
23 de dez. de 2000 · 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...
8 de jun. de 2018 · Florynce Kennedy was a lawyer, political activist, and feminist who fought for civil rights, women's rights, and consumer rights. She was a founder of NOW and the Feminist Party, and a vocal critic of racism, sexism, and hypocrisy.
In 1976, at the age of sixty, black feminist radical Florynce “Flo” Kennedy stood at a podium in front of college students wearing her signature uniform—a cowboy hat and a T-shirt that read “Year of the Woman!,” her fingernails painted bright red—bellowing numerous curse words to punctuate her point that for all oppressed people, power rested in...
