Yolanda Bako Explained

Yolanda Bako
Birth Date:1946
Nationality:American
Occupation:Activist against domestic violence
Known For:Co-founded New York City's first state-funded shelter for battered women (1977)

Yolanda Bako (born 1946) is an American feminist and activist against domestic violence.

Early life

Yolanda Bako was born in the Bronx; both of her parents were born in Hungary.[1] Her father was a bouncer at a bar.[2] She graduated from Evander Childs High School. "When I think of the universe, the Bronx is at its center," she commented about her origins, in 1978.[3]

Career

Bako worked as secretary and at the Guggenheim Museum as a young woman.[4] [5] She became coordinator of the Center for the Elimination of Violence in the Family,[6] and in 1977 co-founded Women's Survival Space in Brooklyn,[7] the city's first state-funded shelter for battered women.[8] She was a rape prevention educator at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a founding member of the Mayor's Task Force on Rape.[9] She was active in the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women,[10] and with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.[11] She coordinated the 1976 Women's Walk Against Rape in Central Park, telling the New York Times, "We have the right to use the world at night."[12]

In 1978, she testified at Congressional hearings on domestic violence and sexual assault.[13] [14] She was the author of How to start a county-wide task force on family violence (1980), a booklet for the American Friends Service Committee.[15] In the 1980s she worked at the Bronx State Psychiatric Hospital as a mental health therapy aide, and in 1995 she attended the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. In 2017, Bako spoke at "a reunion of second-wave feminists" held by the Veteran Feminists of America in New York.[16] [17]

Personal life

Over six feet tall, Bako was a striking presence in feminist activism in the 1970s New York. Her papers are in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard.[18]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. 2000. Dial Press. 978-0-385-31831-0. 272–273. en.
  2. News: Battered Women Gain Floor As Washington Gathers Data. 1977-07-27. Hartford Courant. 2019-12-22. 13. Newspapers.com.
  3. News: A Leader in the Fight for Battered Women. Wood. Ann. 1978-02-25. Daily News. 2019-12-22. 10. Newspapers.com.
  4. Web site: 4. Peggy Guggenheim Collection. 2019-04-19. Guggenheim. en-US. 2019-12-22.
  5. Book: Ten young artists : Theodoron awards : [exhibition, Sept. 24-Nov. 7, 1971] the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.]. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Theodoron (Foundation) .. 1971. New York : Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 26. Internet Archive.
  6. Book: United States Commission on Civil Rights. Battered Women: Issues of Public Policy : a Consultation Sponsored by the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C., January 30-31, 1978. 1983. The Commission. 357–363. en.
  7. News: Beaten Wives Find a Secret Shelter. Shepard. Jan. 1977-12-11. Daily News. 2019-12-22. 219. Newspapers.com.
  8. News: Wives Recite Litany of Abuse by Their Husbands. Klemesrud. Judy. April 30, 1977. 39. ProQuest.
  9. News: Conference Held to Launch Rape Crisis Center. Pawlyna. Andrea. 1975-11-15. Poughkeepsie Journal. 2019-12-22. 3. Newspapers.com.
  10. Web site: Guide to the National Organization for Women, New York City Chapter (NOW-NYC) Records TAM.106. Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University. 2019-12-22.
  11. News: Meeting to Focus on Domestic Violence. Ellison. Alice A.. 1980-01-24. The Evening Sun. 2019-12-22. 22. Newspapers.com.
  12. News: Central Park Night Walk Protests Rapes. 1976-08-05. The New York Times. 2019-12-22. en-US. 0362-4331.
  13. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Domestic and International Scientific Planning, Analysis, and Cooperation, Research Into Violent Behavior: Overview and Sexual Assaults (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978).
  14. Book: Education, United States Congress House Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Select. Domestic Violence: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 7927 and H.R. 8948 ... March 16 and 17, 1978. 1978. U.S. Government Printing Office. 403–410. en.
  15. Bako, Yolanda. How to start a county-wide task force on family violence (American Friends Service Committee 1980).
  16. Reinholz, Mary. "Veteran feminists show they’re young at heart at reunion" The Villager (June 15, 2017).
  17. https://www.veteranfeministsofamerica.org/events/ "Report on the Feminist Reunion, June 10, 2017"
  18. https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/8037 Papers of Yolanda Bako, 1970-1995

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