18 Facts About Rosalyn Baxandall

Rosalyn Baxandall was an American historian of women's activism and feminist activist.

Rosalyn Baxandall's mother, Irma London Fraad, was a curator of Middle Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

Rosalyn Baxandall's maternal great-uncle, Meyer London, was a US Congressional Representative elected on the Socialist Party ticket in 1915.

Rosalyn Baxandall was one of 50 Congressmen and six Senators to oppose US entry into World War I Rosalyn's uncle, Ephraim London, a labor lawyer, was a distinguished civil libertarian and legal scholar.

Rosalyn Baxandall attended Riverdale Country Day School and then Hunter High School, graduating in 1957.

Rosalyn Baxandall began to work for Mobilization for Youth, a service organization on the lower east side of New York City founded by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward in 1961, where she led youth groups and started a day care center.

Rosalyn Baxandall translated French articles for the New Left journals Liberation and Viet Report.

Rosalyn Baxandall was a member of Redstockings, created in 1969; WITCH, which arose as a split-off from New York Radical Women, emphasizing political rather than personal change; No More Nice Girls; and CARASA.

In 1968, Rosalyn Baxandall appeared on the nationally syndicated David Susskind show with fellow feminists Kate Millett, Anselma Del'Olio and Jacqui Ceballoss.

Rosalyn Baxandall was the first speaker at the historic abortion speak-out at Washington Square Methodist Church in 1969.

Rosalyn Baxandall taught Women's studies at Queens College, City University of New York.

Rosalyn Baxandall was among the early faculty, starting in 1971, at the new campus of the State University of New York at Old Westbury.

Rosalyn Baxandall was a frequent speaker and commentator on women's liberation, women's activist history, and radical activist movements.

Rosalyn Baxandall wrote many articles for magazines and journals, including Second-Wave Soundings with co-author Linda Gordon in The Nation and Re-Visioning the Women's Liberation Movement's Narrative: Early Second Wave African American Feminists in Feminist Studies, as well as authoring the pamphlet, Women and Abortion: The Body as Battleground.

Rosalyn Baxandall's work is in several anthologies, including A Companion to American Women's History; Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left; Technology, the Labor Process and the Working Class: Essays; and the Encyclopedia of the American Left.

Rosalyn Baxandall wrote an introduction to a new collection of works by Clara Zetkin, Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings.

Rosalyn Baxandall was interviewed in the 2005 film by Gillian Aldrich and Jennifer Baumgardner, I Had An Abortion.

Rosalyn Baxandall died on October 13,2015, at her home in New York City.