Gerda Lerner was the single most influential figure in the development of women’s and gender history since the 1960s. Over 50 years, a field that encompassed a handful of brave and potentially marginal historians became one with thousands; and expanded from Lerner’s development of an MA program at Sarah Lawrence College to the presence of women’s-history faculty in the great majority of US colleges and universities.
She was an American author and historian. She is known for being tenacious and having a fighting spirit as well as writing a book which documents the achievements and contributions that black people made in history over hundreds of years.
