Hughes was born in Lumpkin, Georgia, in 1938, and eventually moved to New York at the age of 19 where she began working several jobs including house cleaner and nightclub singer, the funeral home said.By the late 1960s, Hughes “organized a multiracial cooperative daycare center,” which got the attention of Steinem, the future co-founder of Ms. Magazine, who wrote a profile of the business in New York Magazine.Shortly thereafter Steinem and Hughes began publicly speaking about the Women’s Movement, the obituary said.“I have been lucky to call Dorothy a friend and lifelong co-conspirator,” Steinem wrote.Ms. Magazine also calls itself, “more than a magazine,” but rather, “a movement.”Hughes and Steinem also cofounded “the Women’s Action Alliance, a pioneering national information center that specialized in nonsexist, multiracial children’s education, in 1971,” the obituary said."