Interview with Bernice Sandler

Interview with Bernice Sandler

Bernice Sandler, Project on the Status and Education of Women

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Project on the Status and Education of Women

Interviewed by Julia Lamber and Jean Robinson on June 28-29, 2004, in Washington, D.C.

Bernice Resnick Sandler (March 3, 1928 – January 5, 2019) was an American women's rights activist born in New York. Sandler is best known for being instrumental in the creation of Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, in conjunction with Representatives Edith Green (D-OR) and Patsy Mink (D-HI) and Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) in the 1970s. She has been called "the Godmother of Title IX" by The New York Times. Continued on Wikipedia