Wow, wonderful. 'Ms.' is me! — Sheila Michaels (image via Wikimedia) People had been using the honorific 'Ms.' since the early 1900s, but it was Sheila — a civil rights activist, feminist writer, restauranteur and later, even a taxi driver — who brought the honorific to prominence in the 1960s.
A Woman to Know: Sheila Michaels
A Woman to Know: Sheila Michaels
A Woman to Know: Sheila Michaels
Wow, wonderful. 'Ms.' is me! — Sheila Michaels (image via Wikimedia) People had been using the honorific 'Ms.' since the early 1900s, but it was Sheila — a civil rights activist, feminist writer, restauranteur and later, even a taxi driver — who brought the honorific to prominence in the 1960s.