ABSTRACT
Susan Moore Ervin was born in Minneapolis on June 27, 1927. She attended an all-women's high school, then an all-women's college, Vassar College, where she took courses in 11 subjects, among them courses in art history (her major), the social sciences, and several languages. Her undergraduate experiences had already impressed upon her a concern with women's issues, as she noted her good fortune in having had many excellent women professors at a liberal arts college — while those women were not allowed entry at the time to the larger research universities.
