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A feminist author and social activist who said “Feminism is for everybody”
Who is Bell Hooks?
This 1968 protest outside a pageant in Atlantic City challenged sexist beauty standards and gained national attention.
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This co-author of the Declaration of Sentiments helped launch the women’s suffrage movement at Seneca Falls.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Activist and scholar that said “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
Who is Angela Davis?
This 1970 nationwide protest marked the 50th anniversary of women’s suffrage by demanding equal opportunity and free childcare.
What is the Women’s Strike for Equality?
Congresswoman who became the first Black woman to run for a major party's presidential nomination in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Author of Borderlands that said “I am my language”
Who is Gloria Anzaldua?
This 1969 “speak-out” in New York City saw women openly discussing illegal abortions for the first time on a public stage.
What is the Redstockings Abortion Speak-Out?
This activist and poet challenged racism, sexism, and homophobia through her roles as an educator and outspoken voice in the feminist and civil rights movements.
Who is Gloria Steinem
This gender theorist and activist said “We are all born into our bodies; we must learn how to live inside them.”
Who is Kate Bornstein?
Held in Houston in 1977, this was the first federally funded conference where over 2,000 women gathered to outline a National Plan of Action.
What is the First National Women’s Conference?
This self-described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” challenged racism, sexism, and homophobia in her writing.
Who is Audre Lorde?
This writer and activist famously stated “I’m not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own”
Who is Audre Lorde?
These small discussion circles helped women realize that their personal struggles were part of a larger political system of gender inequality.
What are consciousness-raising groups?
This Quaker helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and spoke out for both women and Native Americans.
Who is Lucretia Mott?