Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American activist, poet, and actress. She is most well known for her work as a key member of the feminist movement. She is most well known for organizing the 1968 Miss America Protest in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Early life
She attended The Wetter School in Mount Vernon, and graduated in the year 1956. Although, after finishing her high school degree, her mother did not let her attend a formal university. Instead, she had a private tutor teach her college level courses and took some classes from Columbia University as a part-time student there.
Career
Her career started very young as a child model and actress. In 1945, she had her own radio show called The Little Robin Morgan Show. At that same time, she appeared multiple times as a consistent guest star on Juvenile Jury. Her best known work as an actress was on Mama, where she was one of the main characters for 7 years.
Then, at age 14 she decided to switch her focus to her writing. Starting in the 1950s, she published her poems and other writing pieces. In the 1960s, she also worked as a literary agent and freelance editor in New York City.
In 1968, she helped to organize the Miss America Protest in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This protest fought to end the Miss America annual beauty pageants because they enforced sexist beauty standards. This work spurred her on to join more committees and have a larger voice in the feminist movement as well as other activist movements. From 1989 to 1994 she was the editor-in-chief of Ms. Magazine, the first national liberal feminist news magazine.
She did most of her activism work during the late 1900's and early 2000's. She has protested both nationally and globally. Her other work nationally includes protesting against pornography in the media, unequal pay, sexual harassment and assault, and many more feminist issues. Globally she traveled all around the world (especially in the late 1980's) to fight for women's rights, racial equality, and more. Her career started as a child actress and model, before she ultimately decided to focus on her writing.
She is now an award-winning author who has published poetry, nonfiction books, and fictional novels. She has also founded and/or been an important member of the National Battered Women's Refuge Network, the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Women's Media Center, the National Network of Rape Crisis Centers, the Feminist Writers' Guild, the Women's Foreign Policy Council, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Sisterhood Is Global Institute, the Anti-Vietnam War movement, GlobalSister.org, New York Radical Women, W.I.T.C.H., and Greenstone Women's Radio Network. Now, she also works as a lecturer across the globe in universities and workplace settings. She also still is publishing her writing work.
Publications
In order of date published:
Saturday's Child - 1950
Monster - 1972
Lady of the Beasts - 1976
Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist - 1977
Death Benefits: Poems - 1981
Against Sadomasochism - 1982
Death Perceptions: Poems and a Masque - 1982
The Anatomy of Freedom - 1982
Sisterhood is Global - 1984
Dry Your Smile: A Novel - 1987
Manpower - 1987
Bullion, Brink's-Mat: The Story of Britain's Biggest Gold Robbery - 1988
The Demon Lover - 1989
Upstairs in the Garden - 1990
The Mer-Child: A Legend for Children and Other Adults - 1991
The Word of a Woman - 1992
A Hot January - 1999
Sisterhood is Forever - 2003
Chasing a Dream: Poems - 2006
Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right - 2006
The Burning Time - 2006
I Kissed A Ghost - 2012
Micro Fiction: An Anthology - 2014
Icky Sticky Prickly Pine - 2015
Dark Matter: New Poems - 2018
Parallax: A Novel - 2019
Parallax: New Poems - 2019
Filmography
In order of date released:
Citizen Saint 1947
Tales of Tomorrow (TV Series) 1951
Suspense (TV Series) 1951
Mr. I. Magination (TV Series) 1952
Danger (TV Series) 1952
Mama (TV Series) 1949-1956
Kraft Theatre (TV Series) 1954
Pond Theaters (TV Series) 1954
Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) 1955-1956
Juvenile Jury (TV Series) 1955
Star Stage (TV Series) 1955
The Alcoa Hour (TV Series) 1956
Not A Love Story: A Film About Pornography (Documentary) 1981
American Experience (TV Series documentary) 2002
1968 with Tom Brokaw (TV Movie documentary) 2007
The Seventies (TV Mini Series documentary) 2015
1968: The Year That Changed America (TV Series documentary) 2018
Freethought Matters (TV Series) 2021
References
1941 births
American feminists
Living people
American poets
American activists