Mary Lou Butcher

Today I am working on an article about Mary Lou Butcher. Mary Lou’s discrimination lawsuit against the Detroit News opened the door for women at the newspaper. (Mary Lou started out in the women’s pages and moved on to the suburban news side. She was demoted after applying for a bureau chief position.)

Mary Lou is in the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame and in the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame.

Mary Lou is part of the Women in Journalism oral history project. The transcript is not available online. I ordered a copy from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection last winter and have been going over the transcript during the past few weeks.

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