Gloria Steinem (The Sixties in America)
Early Life
A native of Toledo, Ohio, Gloria Steinem spent much of her youth caring for her mentally ill mother. She graduated magna cum laude from Smith College in 1956, then received a Chester Bowles Asia fellowship to study in India, where she joined a radical humanist group and traveled to poverty-stricken areas in the southern part of the country.
The 1960’s
Soon after returning to the United States, Steinem moved to New York and worked as a freelance journalist, writing funny photo captions for Help and penning more serious articles such as “The...
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