Snitow, Virginia Levitt

Virginia Snitow (1911-2000)

A long-time teacher, activist, and philanthropist, Virginia Snitow was born in Brooklyn on April 9, 1911 to Louis Levitt (1874 - 1960) and Tillie (Toba) (Rosenberg) Levitt (1892(?) - 1959). As honored by the National Women's Division of American Jewish Congress Virginia Snitow held strongly to the "essential truths of human dignity, racial justice and peace…" These beliefs were strengthened through her education at Girls' High School in Brooklyn, her undergraduate education at Hunter College and her post graduate study at Columbia University and then fully developed as a New York City teacher of English at Wadleigh Public High School for Girls in Harlem through the 1930s and early 1940s.

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