Aileen Clarke Hernandez
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Economics
- Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights, Human Rights, Labor, Unions, Work, Employment
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present, Women’s History, African American History
Article abstract: As president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), director of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, and commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Aileen Hernandez has represented the interests of women and minorities in the forefront of social reform.
Early Life
Aileen Clarke was reared in Brooklyn by her parents Charles and Ethel Clarke, who had emigrated from Jamaica in the British West Indies and eventually became American citizens. Her mother was a costume maker and seamstress in the New...
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