Feminist Activism

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Feminist Activism

• The Ideas and Events that Shaped the Modern
  Womens Movement in the United States

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Equal Rights Capacities

• The concept that women are deserving of human
  rights and that social reality shapes human
  character and empowers/restricts human potential

• 1792 Vindication of the rights of Women
• 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
• 1972 Congress passes the Equal Rights Act
• 1977 Year of the Woman Conference, Houston

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Education

• The concept that girls deserve an education equal
  to that of boys in quality and quantity

• 1790 Judith Sargent Stevens Murray writes in
  support of equal education
• 1833 Oberlin is first coeducational college
• 1972 Title IX

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Labor

• The concept that women should be allowed equal
  opportunities to labor, equal protection while
  laboring, and equal pay for comparable labor

• 1834 Lowell Strike
• 1963 Equal Pay Act
• 1964 Civil Rights Act includes prohibition of
  sex discrimination in employment
• EO 11375 Affirmative Action includes Sex

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Politics

• The belief that women, who have helped create a
  free nation, should be allowed to vote on the
  future and leadership of the country

• 1869 Organization of suffragists
• 1890 National American Woman Suffrage
  Association
• 1919 The League of Women Voters is formed
• 1919 1919 Amendment passes
• 1971 National Womens Political Caucus is formed

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Abolition

• The support of women in the voice of abolition of
  slavery rights of other oppressed groups have
  been theoretically tied

• 1837 Grimke lectures
• 1840 Abolition movement splits over womens
  rights
• 1850 Harriet Tubman leads slaves
• 1851 Sojourner Truth speaks at Womens
  Convention
• 1863 National Womens League support
  emancipation

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Temperance

• The moral reform against Spirits is led by
  women as they recognize their losses due to the
  intoxication of husbands and fathers

• 1826 American Society for the Promotion of
  Temperance
• 1833 First National Temperance Convention