Lucy Komisar

Lucy Komisar is a New York City-based investigative journalist.

Komisar was editor of the Mississippi Free Press in Jackson, Mississippi from 1962 to 1963. The weekly covered the civil rights movement and related political and labor issues and was read largely by black people in Mississippi. (The newspapers and her other civil rights papers are archived at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.[1])

Career

Komisar was a national Vice-President of the National Organization for Women from 1970 to 1971 and was successful, with Legislative VP Ann Scott, in getting the US government to extend federal contractor and cable TV affirmative action rules to women. Her NOW papers are in the Schlesinger archives at Harvard University.[2]

In 1977, Komisar became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP).[3] WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.

Komisar exposed the practice of Sodexo, a major provider of food to schools, colleges, hospitals, companies and other institutions, of demanding and getting kickbacks from its suppliers. The article appeared in March 2009 in In These Times.[4]

Books

  • The New Feminism (New York: Franklin Watts, 1972; Paperback Library, 1972), primer on feminism, including history, law, work, education and origins of contemporary movement.
  • Down and Out in the U.S.A. A History of Public Welfare (New York: Franklin Watts, 1973 and 1977; New Viewpoints, 1973 and 1977), history of the American welfare system from colonial times to the present.
  • Corazon Aquino: The Story of a Revolution (New York: George Braziller, 1987), political biography of Corazon Aquino, former president of the Philippines. (Zurich: Benziger Verlag, 1988; Manila: The National Bookstore, 1988)

References

  1. ↑ "M395 Komisar (Lucy) Civil Rights Collection". Lib.usm.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
  2. ↑ Papers of NOW Officers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
  3. ↑ "Associates | The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press". www.wifp.org. Retrieved 2017-06-21.
  4. ↑ Komisar, Lucy (9 March 2009). "Cafeteria Kickbacks: How food-service providers like Sodexo bilk millions from taxpayers". In These Times. Retrieved 3 March 2017.


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