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ASSIGNMENT 24
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National Organization for Women
Rosa Acevedo
Assignment 24
U.S. HISTORY
The National Organization for Women was a feminist organization.
It consists of 550 chapters in all U.S. states and in Washington, D.C.
It was founded on 1966 in USA
What is N.O.W?
Its left-leaning
The 28 women who became founders in June were:
It was founded by 28 women at the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in June and another 21 women and men who became founders at the October 1966 NOW Organizing Conference, for a total of 49 founders.
Ada Allness, Mary Evelyn Benbow, Gene Boyer, Shirley Chisholm, Analoyce Clapp, Kathryn F. Clarenbach, Catherine Conroy, Caroline Davis, Mary Eastwood, Edith Finlayson, Betty Friedan, Dorothy Haener, Anna Roosevelt Halstead, Lorene Harrington, Mary Lou Hill, Esther Johnson, Nancy Knaak, Min Matheson, Helen Moreland, Pauli Murray, Ruth Murray, Inka O’Hanrahan, Pauline A. Parish, Eve Purvis, Edna Schwartz, Mary-jane Ryan Snyder, Gretchen Squires, Betty Talkington and Caroline Ware
They were inspired by the failure of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Background
They were frustrated with the way in which the federal government was not enforcing the new anti-discrimination laws.
Betty Friedan wrote "The Feminine Mystique" in response to her own experiences. She was a feminist long before her book, by educating herself and deviating from the domestic female paradigm. The book's purpose was to fuel movement to a women's role outside of domestic environment.
Women started from leading local civil rights organizations to serving as lawyers on school segregation lawsuits.
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and fought for the equality gender.
Civil Rights movement
Lonnie King was an activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta and echoes Simmons’ criticisms about male privilege and domination.
Gwendolyn
Ekwueme Michael Thewell was a student at Howard University and a leader of the Nonviolent Action Group. He reflected on the sacrifices that women college students at Howard made in joining the struggle, and remarks on the constraints they faced
Lonnie King
Summarizing, women played a large role in the Civil Right movement and people began to get involved.
Ekwueme
Civil Right movement has changed a big part of citizens today.
Nowadays, in most of the countries, women are able to work anywhere and they have the right to vote. Women are not just for house-work.
Citiziens in society today
THEN vs NOW