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Helen M. Gougar (1843–1907) – lawyer, temperance and women's rights advocate; Emiliana Guereca (fl. 2016) - Mexican-America feminist and entrepreneur; Grace Greenwood (1823–1904) – first woman reporter on New York Times, advocate of social reform and women's rights; Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1828–1911) – abolitionist, minister, author
Advocates for women's rights founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in June 1966 out of frustration with the enforcement of the sex bias provisions of the Civil Rights Act and Executive Order 11375. [103] New York state legislature amends its abortion-related statute to allow for more therapeutic exceptions. [8] 1966
Augusta Lewis Troup (1848–1920) – women's rights activist and journalist who advocated for equal pay, better working conditions for women, and women's right to vote Grace Wilbur Trout (1864–1955) – President of the Illinois Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, spearheaded the 1913 effort granting Illinois women the right to vote
Her essay was reprinted as a women's rights tract in the U.S. and was sold for decades. [63] [64] Lucy Stone. Wendell Phillips, a prominent abolitionist and women's rights advocate, delivered a speech at the second national convention in 1851 called "Shall Women Have the Right to Vote?" Describing women's suffrage as the cornerstone of the ...
At a women's rights convention in 1869, the Delaware Suffrage Association was formed. [308] Mary Ann Sorden Stuart, a women's rights advocate testified in both the United States Congress and the Delaware General Assembly in the 1870s and 1880s.
Another member was abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sojourner Truth. [17] In 1870, Lucy Stone, the leader of the AWSA, began publishing an eight-page weekly newspaper called the Woman's Journal as the voice of the AWSA. Eventually it became a voice of the women's movement as a whole. [18]
A former Planned Parenthood president and staunch women's rights advocate Cecile Richards has died at the age of 67. Ex-Planned Parenthood president, women's rights advocate Cecile Richards dies at 67
The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States.It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).