Contributions to the Feminist Movement
- Served on President John F. Kennedy's President’s Commission on the Status of Women Committee
- The overlapping discrimination she experienced on the basis of her gender and race, from Black and white people, prompted her to coin the term "Jane Crow" in a 1964 George Washington Law Review article titled “Jane Crow and the Law: Sex discrimination and Title VII.” Jane Crow helped establish the foundation for intersectional feminism, one of today's most prominent feminst theories.
- Helped to found National Organization for Women, in 1967