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Officers of the National Council of Negro Women. Founder Mary McLeod Bethune is at center. The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1935 with the mission to advance the opportunities and the quality of life for African-American women, their families, and communities.
Dorothy "Dottie" Miller Zellner (born 1938) is an American human rights activist, feminist, editor, lecturer, and writer. A veteran of the 1960s civil rights movement, she served as a recruiter for the Freedom Summer project and was co-editor of Student Voice, the student newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
LaSpina was born in a fishing village Riposto in Sicily.As a young child she contracted polio, which left her without the use of her legs.Throughout her childhood she was the subject of constant pity, friends and neighbors would call her "such a pretty girl" with the implication that it was a shame that such an attractive child was disabled. [1]
Sophie Alberti (1846–1947) – pioneering women's rights activist and a leading member of Kvindelig Læseforening (Women Readers' Association) Widad Akrawi (born 1969) – writer and doctor, advocate for gender equality, women's empowerment and participation in peace-building and post-conflict governance
Womankind Worldwide – supporting women in Africa, Asia and Latin America; Women Deliver – a global advocacy organization that works to generate political commitment and financial investment for fulfilling Millennium Development Goal 5 – reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health.
WLM groups sprang up throughout Canada, though in Quebec there was a struggle over whether women's liberation or Québécois liberation should be the focus for women radicals. Advocating public self-expression, such as participating in protests and sit-ins, organizations affiliated with the movement tended to operate on a consensus-based ...
A few weeks ago, on a frigid and snowy but bright sunny day, the men of Eta Nu Nu of the illustrious Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. decided to celebrate Women’s History Month early, as more than ...
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. [5] It is the largest feminist organization in the United States with around 500,000 members. [6]