What did gerda Hedwig Lerner do?

She was an American author and historian. She is known for being tenacious and having a fighting spirit as well as writing a book which documents the achievements and contributions that black people made in history over hundreds of years.

Gerda Lerner was the single most influential figure in the development of women’s and gender history since the 1960s. Over 50 years, a field that encompassed a handful of brave and potentially marginal historians became one with thousands; and expanded from Lerner’s development of an MA program at Sarah Lawrence College to the presence of women’s-history faculty in the great majority of US colleges and universities.