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the 19th Amendment
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alice paul
she succeed in giving a constitutional amendment introduced in Congress that states:“Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction." -
Betty Freidan " Feminine Mystique"
Betty Friedan (1921–2006) American social activist and leading feminist figure of the 1960s. she wrote the best-selling book “The Feminine Mystique.” Friedan campaigned for an extension of female rights and an end to sexual discrimination. -
national women basketball championships
The Amateur Athletic Union sponsored the first-ever national women’s basketball championship. -
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem An American feminist, journalist, and social activist. She was one of the most prominent leaders of the US feminist movement of the 1960s 1970s. She played a key role campaigning for the Equal Rights Amendment passed in 1972. She was co-founder of several feminist groups, such as the ‘Womens Action Alliance’. -
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the National Council of Negro Women, a coalition of black women’s groups that lobbies against job discrimination, racism, and sexism. -
Margaret Chase
Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to be elected to the House and Senate -
WASIA
The Women’s Armed Services Integration Act was signed into law granting women the right to serve as permanent members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force -
Hellen Keller
A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, antimilitarism, Hellen Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree awards: presedential medal of freedom -
Firestone
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution is a 1970 book by Shulamith Firestone. It has been called the clearest and boldest presentation of radical feminism -
Aint I a Women?
"Ain't I a Woman?" is the name given to a speech, delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth, (1797–1883), born into slavery in New York State. Some time after gaining her freedom in 1827, she became a well known anti-slavery speaker.
Ain't I a Woman?: Black women and feminism is a 1981 book by bell hooks titled after Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech -
Vanessa Martins Lamb
The new way of life established at the USA after WWII, the "American way of life", and its influence on women, the construction of the ideology of the housewife and the crisis of this ideology are the main points developed in the first part of the work. The second part interprates the transformations of these women into committed feminists and their evolution until the revival of feminine activism in the 1960's. -
Men Explain Things To Me
Men Explain Things To Me is a 2014 book by Rebecca Solnit, published by Haymarket Books. The book is a collection of seven essays and, according to its publisher, "has become a touchstone of the feminist movement
