13 Facts About Sheila Michaels

Sheila Babs Michaels, known as Sheila Shiki-y-Michaels, was an American feminist and civil rights activist credited with popularizing Ms.

Sheila Michaels' mother was at that time separated from her husband, Maurice "Bill" Sheila Michaels, a shoe representative for Edison Brothers Stores in St Louis.

Sheila Michaels's mother did not want to live with a young child, so three-year-old Michaels was sent to New York City to live with her maternal grandparents, Irving Weil and Frances Weil, in the Bronx.

Sheila Michaels was a member of the Congress of Racial Equality.

In 1969, in a lull during a WBAI-radio interview with The Feminists group, Sheila Michaels suggested the use of Ms.

In 1975, Sheila Michaels went to Laos, working with children injured during the Vietnam War.

Sheila Michaels worked as an oral historian where she interviewed members of Congress of Racial Equality.

Sheila Michaels drove a taxi in New York City for ten years, and ran a Japanese restaurant with her husband.

Sheila Michaels wrote short observational items about her taxi passengers for New York magazine.

The papers of Sheila Michaels are archived in the McCain Library, University of Southern Mississippi.

Sheila Michaels traveled and worked in Singapore, Turkey, India, Laos, Korea and Japan.

Sheila Michaels was married to Hikaru Shiki, a Japanese chef in New York City.

Sheila Michaels died from leukemia on June 22,2017, aged 78.