Elaine Wessel
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Elaine Wessel
Salute to Harold Washington
On April 6, 1983, the Hyde Park Herald published an endorsement from the Hyde Park/Kenwood Citizens Committee of Democratic Party Chicago mayoral candidate Harold Washington. Signatories to the endorsement included Elaine Wessel, Morris Wessel and Sophie Wessel.[1]
New American Movement's Newspaper Blazing Star
From Jorjet Harper at the now-defunct Chicago gay and lesbian newspaper, the Windy City Times:[2]
- "The first newspaper I contributed to in Chicago, after moving here from New York in 1979, was a little feminist periodical called Blazing Star. Blazing Star—named, for some symbolic reason I no longer remember, after the liatris flower—was the project of a group of socialist-leaning lesbian feminists I met sometime in 1980 who were members of a Chicago chapter of a national socialist feminist organization called the New American Movement (NAM). Judy MacLean, Hannah Frisch, Chris Riddiough and Elaine Wessel were the core members of the Blazing Star group. There were quite a few other, more occasional participants whose names I no longer recall, some of whom had nothing to do with NAM and simply wanted to work on a lesbian-feminist newspaper.
DSA Feminist Commission
In 1985[3] and 1986,[4] Elaine Wessel of Illinois was listed as a member of the Feminist Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America.
References
- ↑ Hyde Park Herald April 6, 1983, page 8
- ↑ The Passing Parade: Cultural Reporting in an Age of Heroes (accessed Dec 14, 2023)
- ↑ DSA Feminist Commission Directory, 1985
- ↑ 1986 DSA Feminist Commission Directory