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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
July 27–30: The First National Conference of the Colored Women of America is held at Berkeley Hall in Boston. [20] [21] 1896. November 15–19: First National Jewish Women's Congress is held in Tuxedo Hall in New York City. [22] 1897. January: NAWSA holds their 29th annual convention in Des Moines, Iowa. [23] 1898
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 ...
The National Organization for Women (NOW), was founded to fit that need. Clarenbach became the first chair of NOW. NOW's first action was to confront the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about their sexual discrimination. When they made their point, they received much support. NOW kept growing.
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.