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Ida B. Wells
Born in Mississippi in 1862, is perhaps best known for her work as a crusading journalist and anti-lynching activist. Wells wrote for the city’s black newspaper, The Free Speech. Her writings exposed and condemned the inequalities and injustices that were so common in the Jim Crow South: disfranchisement, segregation, lack of educational and economic opportunity for African-Americans, and especially the arbitrary violence that white racists used to intimidate and control their black neighbors. -
Margaret Sanger
She founds the American Brith Control League, which evolves into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedman broke new ground by exploring the idea of women finding personal fulfillment outside of their traditional roles.
She also helped advanced the women's rights movement as one of the founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW). -
Prostitution and Ways of Fighting
Alexandra kollontai felt that the act of prostitution represents everything that was wrong with society at the time. Wages are not suffieient enough to sustain a family that's why the women's has no other choice but to prostitute themselves to support their family. -
National Council of Negro Women
Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the National Council of Negro Women, a coalition of black women's groups tha lobbies against job discrimination, racism, and sexism. -
Ellen Jane Willis
Ellen Jane Willis was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist,feminist, and pop music critic. Willis was born in Manhattan to a Jewish family, and grew up in the boroughs of the Bronx an de Queens in New York City. She was one of the few women working in music criticism during its inaugural years, when it was predominantly a male-dominated field. -
Jo Freeman
She is an American feminist,political scientisit, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties and the civil rights movement. She went on do voter registration and community organization in Alabama and Mississippi and was early organizer of women's liberation movement. -
1957
The number of women and men voting is approximately equal for the first time. -
1960
Women now earn only 60 cents for every dollar earned by men a decline since 19955. Women of color earn only 45 cents. -
1963
The Equal Pay Act, proposed twenty years earlier, establishes equal pay for men and women performing the same job duties. It does not cover domestics, agricultural workers, executives, administrators or profesionals. -
1964
Title Vll of the Civil Rigths Act bars employment discrimination by private employers, employment agencies, and unions based on race,sex,and other grounds. -
1966
In response to EEUC inaction on emplyment discrimination complaints, twenty- eight women found the. National organization for women to function as a civil rights organization for women. -
1968
New York Radical Women garner media attention to the women's movement when they protest the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. -
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm is first black women elected to the U.S congress -
The girl who stood up
Malala when her identity was discovered, Malala began to appear in both Pakistaní and international media, advocating the freedom to persve education for all. A gunmen boarded Malala's school bus. -
2017
Women directors might just get the Hollywood ending they have been hoping for.