Heather Booth

Heather Booth is an activist.

She was a Freedom Summer volunteer.

She was also one of the founders of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, a feminist organization founded in 1969 at a conference in Palatine, Illinois. In that same year, she originated the Jane Collective, also called Jane and officially known as the Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation, which was an underground service in Chicago, Illinois affiliated with the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, and which operated from 1969 to 1973, a time when abortion was illegal in the United States. She began this group when she helped her friend's sister find an abortion provider. She and other CWLU members also organized the Action Coalition for Decent Childcare.

In 1972 "Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement," which is believed to be the first publication to use the term "socialist feminism," was published; it was by her and other members of the Hyde Park Chapter of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (specifically, it was by Heather Booth, Day Creamer, Susan Davis, Deb Dobbin Robin Kaufman, and Tobey Klass).

She also began the first campus women’s liberation organization in America.

Booth was the first president of Citizen Action, which was formed in 1980 as a federation of state groups in Ohio, Oregon, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Illinois, with a national office in Washington, D.C. In late 1999, she founded a new national organization, USAction, that has purposes and structure somewhat similar to Citizen Action. USAction includes some of the same state affiliates, which carry on the "Citizen Action" name.

She was interviewed as part of the documentary Freedom on My Mind (1994).

She is featured in the feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.

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