Ansley, Fran

A graduate of Radcliffe College (1969), Frances Lee Ansley was a founding member of Bread and Roses, a women's liberation organization officially founded in Cambridge, Mass., in 1969. Made up of consciousness-raising groups devoted to personal and political understanding of the status and condition of women, Bread and Roses sought to educate others by sponsoring various events, including talks at high schools and colleges, and by investigating and protesting instances of "sexism." Ansley has become a lawyer and teaches at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville.