The feminist movement's most famous face spent fifty years working alongside Latina organizers, most notable Dolores Huerta. Dolores said the learning went the other direction.
Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday, September 2, at her home in New York City, at 92. Her family announced it on her social media accounts, writing that she “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her,” as NPR reported. No cause was given.
When did Gloria Steinem die, and how old was she? Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at her home in New York City. She was 92. Her family announced her death on her social media accounts and did not give a cause. She co-founded Ms. magazine in 1972 and the Ms. Foundation for Women in 1973.
The obituaries will lead with her impact with Ms. magazine, the 1972 launch, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. All true.
Here is the part that belongs to us.
In the late 1960s, Dolores Huerta was in New York running the national grape boycott. Steinem, then a working journalist, helped get the A&P supermarket heir Huntington Hartford behind it, which is how she got Huerta’s attention, according to the Women’s Media Center, the organization Steinem later co-founded.
What followed was roughly fifty years of shared work. It is usually told as Steinem bringing feminism to a labor organizer. Steinem told it the other way.
“I know that she set me on fire in terms of racial injustice,” Steinem said of Huerta, in that same Women’s Media Center piece.
Dolores Huerta has been direct about her journey and learnings from her friend and fellow justice organizer, Gloria Steinem. She has said that Steinem and the feminists around her changed how she understood reproductive rights: “They really helped me with that transition that you do have a right to decide whether to have a child or not,” she told the Women’s Media Center. On PBS NewsHour in 2012, she called herself a “born-again feminist.”
Later, Huerta became the woman who coined Sí se puede and more recently came out with her allegations of sexual misconduct by her fellow founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW).
When the Women’s March filled Washington in January 2017, Steinem was an honorary co-chair. So was Dolores Huerta. So was Angela Davis, and LaDonna Harris of the Comanche Nation. Three of the four national co-chairs were women of color, one of them the Chicana organizer Carmen Perez.
That lineup was not decoration. It was the accumulated result of half a century of women like Huerta refusing to organize separately.
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When did Gloria Steinem die?
September 2, 2026, at her home in New York City, at age 92.
What was Gloria Steinem’s connection to Dolores Huerta?
They met in New York in the late 1960s while Huerta was directing the national grape boycott for farmworkers. They worked together for roughly fifty years and were both honorary co-chairs of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington.
What did Gloria Steinem found?
Ms. magazine (1972), the Ms. Foundation for Women (1973), the National Women’s Political Caucus (1971) and the Women’s Action Alliance (1971).
Did Gloria Steinem receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Yes, in 2013.
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