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In 1999, Wyatt was the founder and CEO of the Wyatt Family Community Center in Chicago, the church's multipurpose community center which served the community and the nation through its diverse programming for families. [2] Wyatt was a founding member of the National Organization for Women. [5]
In 1966, she was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women. Ruth Bader Ginsburg named Murray as a coauthor of the ACLU brief in the landmark 1971 Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, in recognition of her pioneering work on gender discrimination. This case articulated the "failure of the courts to recognize sex discrimination for what it ...
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]
McGrath was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 4, 1911. Her parents, Michael George and Nora (Keane) McGrath, came to the United States from Ireland. She entered Visitation High School in 1923 when she was 12 and graduated from Rosary College in 1931. She then joined the Dominican church and took the name of Sister Albertus Magnus.
Eleanor Marie Smeal (née Cutri; born July 30, 1939) is an American women's rights activist.She is the president and a cofounder of the Feminist Majority Foundation (founded in 1987) and has served as president of the National Organization for Women for three terms, in addition to her work as an activist, grassroots organizer, lobbyist, and political analyst.
Catherine Shipe East (May 15, 1916 – August 17, 1996) was a U.S. government researcher and feminist referred to as "the midwife to the women's movement". She was a powerful force behind the founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and held several influential federal government positions throughout her career.
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The National Organization for Women's Ecumenical Task Force on Women and Religion was created by feminist theologian Elizabeth Farians. [1] The group played an important role in the creation of a Catholic feminist movement in the 1960s and early 1970s and worked for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.