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MOVE (pronounced like the word "move"), originally the Christian Movement for Life, is a communal organization that advocates for nature laws and natural living, founded in 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by John Africa (born Vincent Leaphart).
Hazel H. Brown: [117] First female judge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania] Linda Sheryl Greene: [118] First African American female to teach at Temple University Beasley School of Law (1978) Carolyn Engel Temin: [119] [120] First female Public Defender in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (c. 1987). She later became a ...
"The Woman's Rights Movement in Pennsylvania, 1848–1873". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 32 (2): 153– 165. JSTOR 27770328. Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company. Johnstone, Barbara (2020). The Women's Suffrage Movement in Southwestern Pennsylvania: A Research ...
Philadelphia would host the fifth National Women's Rights Convention in 1854. Later years saw suffragists forming a statewide group, the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association (PWSA), and other smaller groups throughout the state. Early efforts moved slowly, but steadily, with suffragists raising awareness and winning endorsements from labor ...
The Lawyers' Movement, also known as the Movement for the Restoration of Judiciary or the Black Coat Protests, was the popular mass protest movement initiated by the lawyers of Pakistan in response to the former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf's actions of 9 March 2007 when he unconstitutionally suspended Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court.
Cecil Bassett Moore (April 2, 1915 – February 13, 1979) was an American lawyer, politician and civil rights activist who served as president of the Philadelphia NAACP chapter and as a member of Philadelphia's city council. [1] He led protests to desegregate Girard College.
Fifty Years Old and Proud of It: The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania Looks Back to 1920 and on to the Future (PDF). Philadelphia: League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania. Brown, Ira V. (April 1965). "The Woman's Rights Movement in Pennsylvania, 1848-1873". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 32 (2): 153–165.
Harriet was a member of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and, while pregnant, attended the Women's Anti-Slavery Convention in New York in 1837 with two of her sisters. [2] In 1838, the convention was held in Philadelphia at the new Pennsylvania Hall, [2] which was built by the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. [5]