Graduated summa cum laude from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. (1942)
Founded the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.
Died on the same day she celebrated her 85th birthday
Her 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique" became the cornerstone of one of
the 20th century's most profound movements unleashing the first full
flowering of American feminism since the mid 1800's.
Her emphatic belief that women should have equal rights but not at the
expense of alienating men distinguished her from many feminist leaders
who emerged later.
Was a classmate of future First Lady Nancy Reagan (aka Nancy Davis) at Smith College.