Hughes toured the US with Gloria Steinem and founded the first shelter for battered women in New York City
Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist and community activist who co-founded Ms magazine with Gloria Steinem and appeared with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died age 84.
Hughes died on 1 December in Tampa, Florida, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, said funeral director Maurice Sconiers. Her daughter, Delethia Ridley Malmsten, said the cause was old age.
