14 Facts About Susan Brownmiller

Susan Brownmiller was raised in Brooklyn and was the only child of her parents.

Susan Brownmiller's father emigrated from a Polish shtetl and became a salesman in the Garment Center and later a vendor in Macy's department store, and her mother was a secretary in the Empire State Building.

Susan Brownmiller later took the pen name Brownmiller, legally changing her name in 1961.

Susan Brownmiller had "a stormy adolescence", attending Cornell University for two years on scholarships, but not graduating.

Susan Brownmiller participated in civil rights activism, joining CORE and SNCC during the sit-in movement in 1964.

Susan Brownmiller volunteered for Freedom Summer in 1964, wherein she worked on voter registration in Meridian, Mississippi.

Susan Brownmiller first became involved in the Women's Liberation Movement in New York City in 1968, by participating in a consciousness-raising group in the newly formed New York Radical Women organization, where she stated 'I've had three illegal abortions'.

Susan Brownmiller went on to coordinate a sit-in against Ladies' Home Journal in 1970.

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

Susan Brownmiller went on to work as an assistant to the managing editor at Coronet, as an editor of the Albany Report, a weekly review of the New York State legislature, and as a national affairs researcher at Newsweek.

Susan Brownmiller continues to write and speak on feminist issues, including a memoir and history of Second Wave radical feminism titled In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution.

Susan Brownmiller's papers have been archived at Harvard, in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

Susan Brownmiller was named as one of 12 Women of the Year by Time magazine in 1975.

Susan Brownmiller is featured in the feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.