Women Activists
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- Women Activists
- Gilded Age
- Jane Adam- Hull Housing Project, settlement houses for immigrants
- Florence Kelly first leader of National Consumers League (1899) to secure fair working conditions for women and children
- Ida B. Wells - established National Association of Coloured Women (1896) focusing on vote, lynching and education
- Women's Christian Temperance Union (1872) led by Frances Willard
- Voting Rights
- National Women's Suffrage Association (1869)
- Led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Staton
- Merged 1890 National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Radical breakaway group Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage led by Lucy Stone
- American Woman Suffrage Association (more for states)
- Merged 1890 National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Radical breakaway group Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage led by Lucy Stone
- Merged 1890 National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Mary Talbert used vote to campaign against lynching
- Janette Rankin on House of Representatives 1917
- National Women's Suffrage Association (1869)
- New Deal
- Eleanor Roosevelt pushing for more women in public office
- Support for Association of Southern Women Against Lynching
- A first lady actively involved in policy
- Francis Perkin Secretary for Labour
- Mary McLeod Bethune (AA) director of National Youth Administration
- Florence Allen first female Appeal Court Judge
- Eleanor Roosevelt pushing for more women in public office
- Rise of Feminism
- National Organisation for Women (1966)
- Advised Johnson on female appointments
- Ended sex-segregated job adverts in 1968
- Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique (1963)
- 'women are living in a comfortable concentration camp'
- Ti-Grace Aktinson in 1968 argued heterosexual relationships were patriarchal
- The Feminists campaigned against ****, marriage and for abortion
- New York Radical Women
- Organised speakouts on abortions
- Protested at Miss World
- National Organisation for Women (1966)
- New Right
- Phyllis Schafly's opposition of the ERA
- Established National Committee in protest against
- Stressed 'separate spheres'
- Said ERA supporters were lesbians and communists
- The Total Woman 1973 - advise of how to please your husband
- Phyllis Schafly's opposition of the ERA
- 1980s-90s
- Jeane Kirkpatrick UN Ambassador 1981
- Geraldine Ferraro first Democrat vice-presidential candidate
- Hilary Clinton as First Lady 1992 - involved in policy and health-care improvements
- 1972 Shirley Chisholm first black woman to campaign and be elected to Congress
- Gilded Age
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