The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Aileen Clarke Hernandez

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Aileen Clarke Hernandez

4/12/2007; 11/8/2013

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2007.134

Labor activist and foundation executive Aileen Clarke Hernandez (1926 - 2017 ) was the co-founder of the National Organization for Women; the National Women’s Political Caucus; the Sapphire Publishing Company; and Hernandez and Associates. Hernandez was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 4/12/2007 and 11/8/2013, in San Francisco, California. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 11; Total Run Time: 04h 48m 35s

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Hernandez, Aileen C.

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Civil rights, union and women's rights activist Aileen Clarke Hernandez was born Aileen Clarke on May 23, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York. Her Jamaican-born parents, theatrical seamstress Ethel Louise Hall Clarke and Garveyite brushmaker Charles Henry Clarke, named their daughter for Aileen Pringle, a film actress. Hernandez, who grew up in the ethnically-mixed Bay Ridge neighborhood of New York City, attended elementary school at P.S. 176 and graduated in 1943 as school newspaper editor, vice presi...