Rosalyn Baxandall (née Fraad; June 12, 1939 – October 13, 2015) was an American historian of women's activism and feminist activist.
[1] Her father, Lewis M. Fraad, was chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Bronx Municipal Hospital, and Assistant Dean of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
[1][citation needed] Baxandall's maternal great-uncle, Meyer London, was a U.S. Congressional Representative elected on the Socialist Party ticket in 1915.
[1][citation needed] After high school she attended Smith College for one year and then the University of Wisconsin–Madison, from which she graduated with a major in French in 1961.
Shortly after her son was born, she and other parents founded Liberation Nursery, a cooperative that continues as a daycare center today.
In 1968, Baxandall appeared on the nationally syndicated David Susskind show with fellow feminists Kate Millett, Anselma Del'Olio and Jacqui Ceballoss.
Her books include: Baxandall wrote many articles for magazines and journals, including Second-Wave Soundings with co-author Linda Gordon in The Nation and Re-Visioning the Women's Liberation Movement's Narrative: Early Second Wave African American Feminists in Feminist Studies,[12][13] as well as authoring the pamphlet, Women and Abortion: The Body as Battleground.
Rosalyn Baxandall's maternal cousin was Sheila Michaels, also a remarkable feminist in her own right, whom Ephraim London never publicly acknowledged as his daughter.