Corrine Grad Coleman

Corrine Grad Coleman (1927–2004) was an American writer and women's rights activist. She was a founding member of the women's liberation organization Redstockings and helped to write the group's manifesto. She was also a member of New York Radical Women. She participated in the 1968 Miss America protest and the occupation of the offices of Ladies' Home Journal in 1970. She was a co-founder and editor of the literary magazine Feelings: A Journal of Women's Liberation. As a freelance writer, her works were published in the Village Voice and The Brooklyn Phoenix. Coleman graduated from New York University and taught English in New York public schools.

Early life and education Corrine Grad was born in The Bronx on June 30, 1927. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from New York University. She was also a freelance writer and poet, with her works published in the Village Voice and The Brooklyn Phoenix. In November 1968, she attended the national Women's Liberation Conference in Lake Villa, Illinois and conducted a workshop on 'Alternatives to Marriage'.

Alongside Shulamith Firestone and Ellen Willis, she founded the radical women's liberation organization Redstockings, an offshoot of New York Radical Women. She one of the editors of the Redstockings Manifesto of July 7, 1969. She was a leader of the hundred feminists who occupied the offices of the women's magazine Ladies' Home Journal for a day in 1970, demanding that the magazine release an issue on women's liberation. She died of heart disease on July 4, 2004, in Manhattan.