Sheila Michaels, Elevated ‘Ms.’ to Prominence, DEAD @ 78

Never claimed she coined the term Ms, but was instrumental in familiarizing it.  Over the years she was a civil-rights organizer, NYC cabdriver, editor, oral historian and a Japanese restaurateur.  

nytimes.com/2017/07/06/us/sheila-michaels-ms-title-dies-at-78.html