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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]
1977 National Women's Conference, held in Houston, Texas, with 2,000 delegates and over 15,000 observers; 1977 Women's National Conference: Minority-Latino-Women; World Conference on Women, 1980, Copenhagen, Denmark, second in a series held by the United Nations; First Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentro, 1981, Bogotá, Colombia
"A Call to the Mississippi Valley Suffrage Conference" in Minneapolis, May 7–10 in 1916. This is a chronological list of women's rights conventions held in the United States. The first convention in the country to focus solely on women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention held in the summer of 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. [1]
Women's Institute for Science, Equity and Race (WISER), founded 2016; Women's Loyal National League, 1863–1864, organized to abolish slavery, first national women's political organization in the United States; Women's Missionary and Service Commission, name established 1955, attached to the Mennonite Church; Woman's Missionary Union
In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the American Equal Rights Association, an organization for white and black women and men dedicated to the goal of suffrage for all. [13] In 1868 the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, this was the first Amendment to ever specify the voting population as "male". [ 13 ]
Committee of Correspondence (women's organization) Confederated Southern Memorial Association; Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues; Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls; Connecticut College Black Womanhood Conference; Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious; Council of Women for Home Missions; Count Me In (charity) Crittenton ...
Anna Arnold Hedgeman not only helped found the National Organization for Women and advocated passionately for workplace justice, but she was the only woman on the committee that organized the 1963 March on Washington for racial equality.
Since 1994, the National Organization for Women (NOW) has presented the Woman of Courage Award annually (in most years) at the National NOW Conference, and periodically at issue-based summits organized by NOW and/or the NOW Foundation. Honorees are chosen for having demonstrated personal bravery in challenging entrenched power and in carrying ...