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Article: Forgotten feminist: women's page editor Maggie Savoy and the growth of women's liberation awareness in Los Angeles.
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- California History
- Article date:
- March 22, 2009
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The year was 1963, and the publisher of The Arizonian, a weekly newspaper in Scottsdale, wrote a column about his friend Maggie Savoy, the women's page editor for the neighboring Arizona Republic in Phoenix. The publisher, Dickson Hartwell, was taking up Savoy's cause after listening to a self-important newcomer to the Phoenix area lament about his early encounter with the woman who would prove to be bigger than the legacy that has been afforded her.
"A newcomer had recently arrived in the Valley. He was a significant person who had been everywhere and knew everybody," Hartwell wrote. "He had spent only a few hours in his new community before he became aware of a ...