Muriel fox biography

American activist (born 1928)

Muriel Fox (born February 3, 1928) is an American public relations executive and feminist activist.^[1]

Childhood and education

Muriel Fox's parents were Anne Rubenstein Fox and M. Morris Fox.^[1] In 1980, Muriel said (at a Mother's Day rally for the Equal Rights Amendment) that a large inspiration for her feminist activism was her mother's unhappiness at being a housewife.^[2] She had a brother, Jerry, who died in 1988 at age 55.^[2]

She graduated from Weequahic High School in 1945.^[3][4]

She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College in 1948, having transferred there from Rollins College.^[2]

Career

After graduation from college she worked as an advertising copywriter for Sears Roebuck in New York, then as a publicist for Tom Jefferson & Associates in Miami, Florida, where she headed the Dade County re-election campaign of Senator Cla Rollins College Oral History TAPI