27 Facts About Jo Freeman

Jo Freeman went on to do voter registration and community organization in Alabama and Mississippi and was an early organizer of the women's liberation movement.

Jo Freeman authored several classic feminist articles as well as important papers on social movements and political parties.

Jo Freeman has written extensively about women, particularly on law and public policy toward women and women in mainstream politics.

Jo Freeman received her BA with honors in political science from UC Berkeley in 1965.

Jo Freeman began her graduate work in political science at the University of Chicago in 1968 and completed her PhD in 1973.

Jo Freeman entered New York University School of Law in 1979 as a Root-Tilden Scholar and received her JD degree in 1982.

Jo Freeman was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1983.

Jo Freeman moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn in 1979 to attend law school and has lived in Kensington, Brooklyn since 1985.

At Berkeley, Jo Freeman was active in the University Young Democrats and the campus political party, SLATE.

Jo Freeman represented the University Young Democrats on the FSM executive committee.

Jo Freeman was one of 167 demonstrators arrested at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel in March 1964, and one of 226 arrested at the Cadillac agency in April.

Jo Freeman was acquitted in her first trial and convicted in her second, resulting in a fifteen-day jail sentence.

In June 1967, Jo Freeman attended a "free school" course on women at the University of Chicago led by Heather Booth and Naomi Weisstein.

Jo Freeman invited them to organize a woman's workshop at the then-forthcoming National Conference of New Politics, to be held over Labor Day weekend 1967 in Chicago.

When consciousness about women at the University was raised by a sit-in prompted by the firing of a popular female professor, Jo Freeman led efforts to examine women's experiences at the University and in academia.

Jo Freeman served on APSA's Committee on the Status of Women.

Jo Freeman spent the summers of 1970 and 1971 hitchhiking through Europe distributing feminist literature.

Jo Freeman later worked on California senator Alan Cranston's 1984 Presidential campaign and became active in Democratic Party politics in Brooklyn, New York.

Jo Freeman wrote four classic feminist papers under her movement name "Joreen", which analyzed her experiences in the women's liberation movement.

Jo Freeman argues that women that are labeled "a bitch" are often seen as aggressive or as a man hater.

Jo Freeman asked women to embrace their inner bitch, noting that it is difficult to make societal change without angering people.

In 1977, Jo Freeman became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.

Jo Freeman is featured in the feminist history film, She's Beautiful When She's Angry.

Jo Freeman then spent two years in Washington, DC, as a fellow at the Brookings Institution and then as an APSA Congressional Fellow.

Jo Freeman received a JD degree in 1982 and was admitted to the New York State Bar the next year.

Jo Freeman maintained a private practice in Brooklyn, New York for many years, serving as counsel to women running for political offices and to pro-choice demonstrators.

Jo Freeman has continued to attend the major party political conventions, but as a journalist.