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