Pitman Hughes sought to make the lives of ordinary women better by working to empower communities to meet their needs—whether that was child care, recognition of Black women’s inherent beauty or access to economic resources or local healthy food.
The recent publication of Pitman Hughes’s biography—
The book begins with Pitman Hughes’s childhood growing up in Lumpkin, Georgia, then recounts her more than 40-year career of community organizing and entrepreneurship in New York City, from her founding of a community-controlled child care center on the upper West side, to her cross-country speaking tours on women’s liberation with Gloria Steinem, to fighting racism in the Miss America pageant and working for the empowerment of Black business women in Harlem.
Pitman Hughes also organized the first shelter for battered women in New York City, co-founded the New York City Agency for Child Development working to expand child care services in the city and was a co-founder of the National Black Feminist Organization.
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