Other Stuff
Protest Literature
Places
Firsts
100

The city where the Our Body Ourselves women's health collective was formed

Boston

100

The Jane Collective was a Chicago based group that provided what illegal service

Abortion services

200
A major national legislative success on this issue which is still critical today was derailed by a President Nixon veto

Child care

200

Audre Lorde uses this symbol of slavery in her critique of feminism's 

the Master's House

200

Where the Redstockings, known for their manifesto, were founded.

New York City

200
The Boston based Cell 16 took this action to protect women factory workers

What is to form patrols and teach self-defense.

300

Women's experiences organizing and confronting sexism in these movements led them to struggle for women's rights 

What is the Civil Rights and Peace movement

300

The protest literature that inspired the 1970s women's movement and the founding of the National Organization of Women (NOW) 

What is The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

300

Where Cell 16 was founded

What is Boston

300

This annual event was disrupted on national TV with the hanging of a banner that read "Women's Liberation"

The Miss America Beauty Pageant

400

This FBI director declared the Women's Liberation movement dangerous and sent plants to spy on meetings of women's groups

J. Edgar Hoover

400

This critical phrase was used on T-Shirts in a staged action for recognition of lesbians in the movement at the 1970 NOW convention

What is "Lavender Menace"

400

Where Karla Jay hosted the "First National Ogle In"

What is Wall Street

400

This action was an allusion to the burning of draft cards in the peace movement

Burning bras and other so called torture devices in the Freedom Trash Cans
500

Alice Wolfson and others disrupted an all male Congressional Hearing on this women's health issue

Side effects of the Birth Control Pill

500
Alta was inspired to do this because only 6% of books published in American were by women.

Started Shameless Hussy Press

500

Where the banner "Women of the World Unite" was hung

What is on the Statue of Liberty

500

Linda Burnham tells the story of this organization was formed to represent black women at a 1970 abortion rally

Black Sister's United