Suzanne Pharr is an American organizer, political strategist, and author who has worked to build a broad-based social justice movement in the United States. Pharr is the founder of the Women's Project (based in Arkansas), co-founded Southerners on New Ground, a regional progressive LGBT organization, and was the director of the Highlander Center.[1] She organized the "No on Nine" campaign against the passage of Oregon Ballot Measure 9.[2]

Pharr was born in 1939 in Hog Mountain, Georgia, just northeast of Atlanta.[3] She attended colleges in Milledgeville, GA, Buffalo, NY, and New Orleans, LA. She accomplished a MA in English at SUNY/Buffalo, and most of the requirements for the Ph.D. in American literature from Tulane University. From 1977 to 1978, she was director of the Washington County Head Start Program in Fayetteville, AR. In 1988, she co-chaired Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign in Arkansas. From 1999 to 2004, she served as director for the Highlander Research and Education Center, a historic, civil rights organization based in New Market, TN.[4]

Pharr is the author of the book Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism (published in 1988 by Chardon Press).[5][6][7] Pharr's In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation was published in 2008.[8]

Pharr is active currently with Project South, the Southern Movement Assembly, the Rural Organizing Project, and Grassroots Arkansas.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Suzanne Pharr". NCOE. 2016-10-15. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
  2. ^ Myers, JoAnne (2009). "Pharr, Suzanne". The A to Z of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-8108-6327-9.
  3. ^ "Voices of Feminism Oral History Project" (PDF). Smith College Libraries. 2005-06-28. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  4. ^ "Suzanne Pharr". The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. 2018-12-31. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  5. ^ Smothers, Ronald (April 28, 1991). "3,000 Lesbians Meet in Atlanta to Set Own Agenda". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
  6. ^ Card, Claudia (1995). Lesbian Choices. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-231-08009-5. suzanne pharr.
  7. ^ Plott, Michèle, ed. (2000). "Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism". Making Sense of Women's Lives: An Introduction to Women's Studies. San Diego, CA: Collegiate Press. pp. 424–437. ISBN 978-0-939693-53-5.
  8. ^ "Suzanne Pharr". suzannepharr.org. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  9. ^ "Suzanne Pharr". NCOE. 2016-10-15. Retrieved 2019-03-12.

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