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The Women's Interart Center in New York, founded by 1970 in New York City, is still in operation. The Women Artists in Revolution group evolved into the Women's Interart Center, which was a workshop that fostered multidisciplinary approaches, an alternative space and community center - the first of its kind in New York. [24] 1970
The Links, Incorporated, a nonprofit corporation, [1] was founded in 1946 in Philadelphia by seven prominent black women. [2]: 102 [3] Sarah Strickland Scott and Margaret Roselle Hawkins [3] [4] recruited Frances Atkinson, Katie Green, Marion Minton, Lillian Stanford, Myrtle Manigault Stratton, Lillian Wall and Dorothy Wright.
By 1900, almost every black community had a women's club. [72] By 1910, in proportion to population size, African-American women's clubs outpaced white women's clubs in the number of clubs created. [50] By 1914, the NACW had fifty-thousand members and over a thousand clubs participating in the umbrella organization. [73]
The White Ribbon Campaign (WRC) is a global movement of men and boys working to end male violence against women and girls. It was established in November 1991 by a group of men in Toronto, Ontario, as a response to the École Polytechnique massacre of female students by Marc Lépine in 1989. The campaign was intended to raise awareness about ...
Sweet Adelines International – founded 1945 for women's barbershop harmony singers; The RINJ Foundation – civil society women's group focused on safety of women & children particularly from sexual exploitation & violence (founded 2012) TimesUp – organisation all around the world (famous ambassadors: Emma Watson, Meryl Streep)
In 1922 the Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs, organized in 1895, had 423 clubs with about 50,567 members, [7]: 99 not including any African-American women's clubs. Women's City Club, Detroit, Michigan, NRHP-listed; Detroit Study Club, founded 1896, black women's literary organization also involved in social issues and community welfare
Consciousness raising groups were formed by New York Radical Women, an early Women's Liberation group in New York City, and quickly spread throughout the United States. In November 1967, a group including Shulamith Firestone, Anne Koedt, Kathie Sarachild (originally Kathie Amatniek), and Carol Hanisch began meeting in Koedt's apartment.
Womanist theory, while diverse, holds at its core that mainstream feminism is a movement led by white women to serve white women's goals and can often be indifferent to, or even in opposition to, the needs of Black women. Feminism does not inherently render white women non-racist, while womanism places anti-racism at its core.