Free Download Katherine Turk, "The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America"
English | ISBN: 0374601534 | 2023 | 448 pages | EPUB | 23 MB
"A clear blueprint for change . . . A must-read." ―Clara Bingham, The Guardian
The history of NOW―its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission―told through the work of three members.
In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had called this renegade meeting from attendees at the annual conference of state women's commissions. Fed up with waiting for government action and trying to work with a broken system, they laid out a vision for an organization to unite all women and fight for their rights. Alternately skeptical and energized, they debated the idea late into the night. In less than twenty-four hours, the National Organization for Women was born.
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