WOMEN revision: Actvists/Opposition leaders

Betty Freidman

wrote Feminine mystique 1963, Organised NOW 1966 and NARAL 1969, wrote Feminine mystique 1963

Ida B wells

co-founded NACW 1869, pushed for anti-lynching bill

Mary Talbot

president of NCAW 1916-1921

Phylis Shafely

Founded National Committee to stop ERA 1972, wrote ‘Power of the positive women’ 1977

Margret Sanger

1916 first Bc clinic, first legal clinic 1923, est 1921 ABCL, against abortion

Jane Adams

1889 Hull house, educated poor and immigrants

Frances Willard

president of WCTU 1879

Mary Louise Gross

est women’s committee for modification of Volstead act 1920s

Lucretia Mott

peaceful reform, co organised seneca falls 1848, supported Declaration of sentiments.

Elizabath Cady Stanton

‘all men and women are created equal’ 1848, elitist, co-est. NAWSA 1890, wrote ‘History of women suffrage’ 1881

Susan B Antony

co-est. NWSA 1869, president of NAWSA 1892-1900

Alice Paul

1913-organised women’s suffrage parade in Washington DC. pro ERA. est. National women’s party 1917

Pauline Sabin

helped to fund WONPR, elitist

Frances Perkins

first female cabinet member (sec of labour) in 1933

Jeannette Rankin

first women in H of R- 1917. only 9 women had entered congress by 1939