Florynce Kennedy
Pioneering Women
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Gadfly: A person who annoys or criticizes others to provoke them into action.
After high school “Flo” opened a hat shop with her sisters. Within a few years she helped organize her first protest, boycotting a Coca Cola bottler that refused to hire black drivers.
She graduated from Columbia University but was rejected from the Law School—until she threatened to sue. She was one of the first black women graduates and then started her law practice.
From the 1960s until her death in 2000, she fought in the courts and on the streets for women’s and civil rights.
If you found a cause for the downtrodden of somebody being abused someplace, by God, Flo Kennedy would be there.
New York Mayor David N. Dinkins
She is the biggest, loudest and, indisputably, the rudest mouth on the battleground where feminist activists and radical politics join in mostly common cause.
People
A lot of people think I’m crazy…I never stopped to wonder why I’m not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren’t like me.