Charlotte Curtis
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Charlotte Curtis & Robin Morgan
Last week, Lance and I went to Duke University to go through the papers of feminist and writer Robin Morgan. I gave a talk about women’s pages and the women’s movement. One of the most interesting finds involved the relationship between Morgan and New York Times women’s page editor Charlotte Curtis. Curtis covered the protest of the 1968 protest of the Miss America contest. Here is a link to her story. In many accounts, Curtis is portrayed as not supporting the women’s liberation movement. Yet, the truth was more complicated. In this letter to the editor, Morgan explained that it was Curtis who paid the bail of the women who…
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Writing About Brides
I am working on an abstract today about the coverage of brides in the women’s pages for the 2013 Florida Conference of Historians: “Not All Brides Are Wealthy and White: The Integration of the Women’s Pages in 1960s Florida and Across the Country.” This is what it is about: In her critique of society coverage, New York Times women’s page editor Charlotte Curtis noted sarcastically that not all brides were beautiful. While they may not have been attractive, the brides who were considered newsworthy for decades did typically have two things in common – they were white and wealthy. (The photos showed the race of the women and their place in the…
