What is Florence Howe?
[[File:Florence Howe big.png|thumb|Florence Howe in 2014]] '''Florence Rosenfeld Howe''' (March 17, 1929 – September 12, 2020) was an American [[feminist]] author, publisher, literary scholar and historian. She was known as one of the leaders of the contemporary feminist movement.<ref name=Gale>{{cite web | title = Gale Encyclopedia of Biography: Florence Rosenfeld Howe | url= http://biography.yourdictionary.com/florence-rosenfeld-howe | website= biography.yourdictionary.com | publisher = The Gale Group | access-date = 9 March 2015 }}</ref> Howe was born in [[New York City]].<ref name=Congress>{{cite web |title= Howe, Florence |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50029075.html |publisher= Library of Congress |access-date= 9 March 2015 |quote= CIP data sheet (b. 3/17/29) }}</ref> She taught black children in a [[Mississippi]] freedom school during 1964 and chaired the [[Modern Language Association]] commission on the Status of Women in the Profession. In 1967, she signed a public statement declaring her intention to [[tax resistance|refuse to pay income taxes]] in protest against the U.S. war against Vietnam.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/collection/transaction/id/17165/|title=Newspaper clipping of open letter to the U.S. War Committee, 11 March 1967|work=Letter to Mr. W. Walter Boyd from Herbert Sonthoff, March 28, 1967|publisher=Penn State University Libraries: Horowitz Transaction Publishers Archive|date=28 March 1967|page=4|format=archive pdf|quote=No income tax for war! Now particularly the U.S. war in Vietnam. STATEMENT: Because so much of the tax paid the federal government goes for poisoning food crops, blasting of villages, napalming and killing of thousands upon thousands of people, as in Vietnam at the present time, I am not going to pay taxes on 1966 income.}}</ref> Howe also founded [[The Feminist Press]] in 1970.<ref>{{cite web | title = Authors: Florence Howe | url = http://www.feministpress.org/books/florence-howe-0 | website = feministpress.org | publisher