Doris Fleischman (1891 - 1980)

Born 1891 in New York USA

Died 1980 at about age 89 in USA

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Doris Fleischman

Born Doris Elsa Fleischman July 18, 1891

Died July 10, 1980 (aged 88)

Doris Elsa Fleischman Bernays (July 18, 1891 – July 10, 1980), was an American public relations executive and feminist activist.[1] Fleischman was a member of the Lucy Stone League, a group which encouraged women to keep their names after marriage. She was the first married woman to be issued a United States passport in her maiden name, Doris Fleischman, in 1925.[2]

Life and career[edit]

Fleischman attended Hunter Normal School before graduating from Horace Mann School in 1909. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1913.

Fleischman wrote for the New York Tribune women's page before being promoted to assistant Sunday editor, where she was the first woman to report on a boxing match. In 1919, she was hired as a writer by Edward L. Bernays. They married in 1922. Fleischman continued to use her maiden name, which was very unusual at the time.[3]

She and her husband continued to work together after her marriage. Among her accomplishments were securing press coverage for the NAACP convention in Atlanta and an internal client publication, Contact, which explained the nature and value of public relations to clients.[2] Fleischman also wrote about women's issues for national publications.

Starting with her essay “Notes of a Retiring Feminist,” published in the American Mercury in 1949, she began to use her married name Doris Fleischman Bernays professionally.[4] In 1955, she published her memoir, A Wife Is Many Women, under her married name.[5] The Association for Women in Communications gave her their highest honor, a National Headliner Award, in 1972.[6][7]

Fleischman died of a stroke in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]

Sources

• Jewage.org