Dorothy Pitman Hughes Dies at 84; Brought Black Issues to Feminism
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 17, 2022
Dorothy Pitman Hughes, whose street-level activism in New York in the early 1970s, during the first years of the women’s movement, helped to inject issues of race, class and motherhood into roiling debates about feminism and equality, died on Dec. 1 in Tampa, Fla. She was 84.
Her daughter Delethia Ridley-Malmsten confirmed the death, at Ms. Ridley-Malmsten’s home.
Ms. Pitman Hughes is perhaps best known for a 1971 photograph in which she stands alongside her close friend Gloria . . .
