Suzanne Braun Levine - Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battle

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We are grateful to Bellas daughters, Eve and Liz, for their generous support of this projectmaking themselves available for interviews, sharing family photographs and, most crucially, giving us access to Bellas own words. We thank as well the many othersfamily, friends, colleagues, and sometime foes of Bellawho took the time to share their stories.

Thanks also to Bob Levine for seeing that this was an important undertaking and helping make it happen, and his colleague Kim Schefler for deftly managing the legal aspects.

To Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of FSG, for believing in Bella; and our editor, Denise Oswald, for her intelligent and attentive participation in the shaping of the book.

To Karen Grenke for her devoted and smart attention to research, and Rose Heredia for meticulously and enthusiastically transcribing the interviews. Thanks also to Columbia Universitys Oral History OfficeMary Marshall Clark in particularand to the Ford Foundation for supporting the Bella Abzug interviews.

And especially to our family, who urged us on, contributedto the manuscript, and generally added joy to this already deeply satisfying projectRobin Morgan, Gloria Steinem, Harriet Lyons (who managed the photographs), Virginia Kerr, Joanne Edgar, Thom Loubet, Karin Lippert, and Patricia Bauman.

v Ive been described as a tough and noisy woman Bella Abzug and Mel Ziegler, Bella! Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington (New York; Saturday Review Press, 1972), 3.

1: The Early Years: A Passion for Social Justice

4 My parents had the foresight Memoir , 20.

5 Papa was a serious man Memoir , 2.

5 Papa was a big disciplinarian Reminiscences of Bella Abzug, November 2, 1995February 20, 1996, in the Columbia University Oral History Research Office Collection (hereafter Oral History), session one, 15.

6 I spent most of my free time Memoir , 4, 5.

6 ROBIN MORGAN Conversation between Morgan and Eve Abzug, July 26, 2004.

6 I would go on the subways Memoir , 4, 5.

8 He was my babysitter Memoir , 9.

9 I stood apart in the corner Memoir , 9.

9 After I had become a congresswoman Memoir , 10.

9 It was not until I was in my sixties Memoir , 11.

10 I never saw a reason why girls Memoir , 22.

11 My mother more than Memoir , 14.

12 In my home always Memoir , 24.

12 MIM KELBER Interview with editors, fall 2003, and the New York memorial service, April 2, 1998.

13 EVA LEDERMAN Intimate Portrait: Bella Abzug , directed and narrated by Lee Grant, copyright 1999 Lifetime Entertainment Services, all rights reserved, courtesy of Lifetime Television.

13 If I got into trouble Lifetime Intimate Portrait: Bella Abzug .

16 While I was going to Hunter Memoir , 15.

16 We were anti-Franco Oral History, session two, 8.

17 When I was in college Oral History, session three, 4.

17 MOE FONER Reminiscences of Moe Foner (October 25, 1984), on pp. 85, 88 in the Columbia University Oral History Research Office Collection, hereafter CUOHROC.

18 Theres a whole group Oral History, session two, 14.

18 MIM KELBER New York memorial service, April 2, 1998.

19 I was not influenced Oral History, session three, 9, 10.

19 PHIL DONAHUE New York memorial service, April 2, 1998.

20 Toward the end of my time in college Oral History, session three, 11.

20 [Our first date] was a pickup From the Heart: Martin, What Should I Do Now? Ms . Magazine, JulyAugust 1990.

21 I must have had about six jobs Memoir , 47.

22 Martin was in the army From the Heart.

22 So I go downtown Oral History, session one, 57.

23 The law school faculty Oral History, session two, 16.

23 There were many men and women like myself Memoir , 63.

23 There was a crowd Oral History, session two, 17.

24 LYONEL ZUNZ New York memorial service, April 2, 1998.

24 While I was in law school From the Heart.

25 I was in the middle of writing Oral History, session two, 17.

25 LYONEL ZUNZ New York memorial service, April 2, 1998.

25 Because of the wars housing shortage Memoir , 67.

25 MARLO THOMAS New York memorial service, April 2, 1998.

26 People kept being drafted Oral History, session two, 19, 21.

27 I always felt I was going to represent working people Oral History, session two, 24.

28 I had a lot of trouble Oral History, session two, 19.

28 Wherever I went representing my firm Memoir , 70.

29 FAYE WATTLETON New York memorial service, April 2, 1998.

29 If I had to work eighteen hours a day From the Heart.

30 So Pressman came in Oral History, session two, 26.

31 He was a traitor Oral History, session two, 26.

31 Lee Pressman had been horrible to me Oral History, session three, 43.

31 When I was finished with them, I went to Europe Oral History, session two, 37.

31 I wanted to be a lawyer Oral History, session two, 54.

31 On the trip to Europe Memoir , 80.

2: Civil Rights and Civil Libertiesand Raising a Family

35 In 1951 I moved to Mount Vernon Oral History, session two, 38.

36 I used to take a month off Oral History, session two, 31.

41 I wrote a letter to the school Oral History, session two, 48.

43 We fought hard Oral History, session two, 51.

44 My practice was wills, deeds Oral History, session two, 39.

44 This guy was always sending me clients Oral History, session three, 48.

44 ROBERT F. WAGNER Reminiscences of Robert F. Wagner in the CUOHROC, May 1976, 1617.

45 I also represented a lot of people who were victims Oral History, session two, 39.

46 TRANSCRIPT Investigation of Communist Activities, New York Area Part VI, August 16, 1955.

46 There is nothing wrong with taking the Fifth Oral History, session two, 46.

47 During the 1950s witch-hunts From the Heart.

49 I was working in a law firm Oral History, session three, 1331.

53 Dear Rosalie Memoir outline, 13.

55 When I went to court, especially when I was pregnant Memoir , 72.

55 GERALDINE FERRARO New York memorial service, April 2, 1998.

56 I challenge the system Oral History, session three, 32.

56 JOE BOLOGNA New York memorial service, April 2, 1998.

56 Originally I felt that law was the instrument for social change Oral History, session three, 33.

3: Building a Peace Movement

59 I didnt like Adlai Oral History, session three, 51.

61 I cant really recall Oral History, session four, 5.

61 They thought their cry Oral History, session four, 5.

61 All I wanted to do Oral History, session four, 9, 10.

62 I tried to get Women Strike Oral History, session three, 53.

63 They often said Oral History, session four, 24, 27.

64 CORA WEISS E-mail, October 16, 2005.

66 AMY SWERDLOW [W]hat is Women Strike for Peace (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 135.

68 This Mothers Day Speech delivered at a 1968 march, in Susan Dworkin, Shes Nobodys Baby: A History of American Women in the Twentieth Century , ed. Suzanne Braun Levine (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), 162.

68 ETHEL TAYLOR WSP coordinator in Philadelphia, quoted in Swerdlow, Women Strike for Peace , 125.

69 It was a very important Oral History, session four, 70.

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