May Craig

Washington political columnist May Craig was hardly known to readers outside of Maine, where her daily column was published for more than thirty years in a variety of state papers, including the Portland Press Herald Yet this tiny women, who titillated audiences and terrified guests on “Meet the Press,” was an ardent feminist who accomplished many “firsts” for female reporters at a time when the women's rights movement was all but dead. Her most important accomplishment for women came when the “May Craig Amendment,” prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex, became federal law as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.