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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]
May 10–11: Tenth National Woman's Rights Convention held at The Cooper Union in New York City. [5] May 14: First Woman's National Loyal League Convention held at the Church of the Puritans in New York City. [5] 1867. May 9–10: First annual meeting of the American Equal Rights Association (AERA) is held in New York City. [11] 1869
The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded by conference attendees in October 1966, the first new feminist organization of the "second wave" of feminism. A former EEOC commissioner, Richard Graham , was on NOW's first board as a vice president.
Pan-American Conference of Women, 1922, Baltimore, Maryland; All India Women's Conference, founded 1927, today over 100,000 members; International Conference for Women Leaders, biennial conference in Israel, first held 1961; International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists, 1964, New York, USA, series of ongoing conferences every 3 ...
The First National Conference of the Colored Women of America was a three-day conference in Boston organized by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, a civil rights leader and suffragist. In August 1895, representatives from 42 African-American women's clubs from 14 states convened at Berkeley Hall for the purpose of creating a national organization.
A New York State delegate to the 1977 Houston National Women's Conference and 1980 White House Conference on Families, [1] Connell has chiefly held elective offices in the National Organization for Women (NOW) founding chapter in New York City, NOW-NYC, from 1973–2009.
The National Women's Conference of 1977 was a four-day event during November 18–21, 1977, as organized by the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. The conference drew around 2,000 delegates along with 15,000-20,000 observers in Houston, Texas , United States.
Women's issues would remain a dominant political issue for the Democratic Party. At its 1980 national convention, the plank around the Equal Rights Amendment was subject to fierce debate between feminists, organized by the National Organization for Women and the National Women's Political Caucus, and the Carter administration. [26]