An American feminist organization founded in 1966 in response to the need to enforce Title VII. Betty Friedan served as the organization’s first president, but it was organized by Friedan, black lawyer and Civil Rights leader Pauli Murray, and the black union organizer and EEOC commissioner, Aileen Hernandez, who served as NOW’s second president from 1970-1971.
The National Organization for Women (NOW) Quotes in The Feminine Mystique
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“What we need is a political movement, a social movement like that of the blacks.”
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The National Organization for Women (NOW) Term Timeline in The Feminine Mystique
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...that would do nothing to enforce Title VII led to the idea to start the National Organization for Women . Friedan co-founded the group with Pauli Murray, a prominent black female lawyer, several female...
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Though the women who started NOW were middle-class, they did not have easy access to money. Housewives could not get money...
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...Yale Universities, lunch at the Oak Room in the Plaza Hotel with fifty members of NOW demanding service from the wait staff, testifying before the Senate against the nomination of a...
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...encouraged man-hating and class warfare. They threatened to take over the New York chapter of NOW and drive out women who wanted “equality but who also wanted to keep on loving...
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On August 26, 1970, NOW organized a march to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment,...
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