Founding+of+NOW

= The National Organization For Women: The Beginning, The Present, and The Future =

// "To take action to bring women into the full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men." //

Betty Friedan, one of the founders of NOW, spoke these words, and this was her goal for the National Organization for Women. She wanted fair treatment for all men and women. One of the other founders, Pauli Murray, was an African American. a feminist, and an Episcopalian minister. This just shows that no woman was excluded from this movement, not even gays.

Significance of NOW
gave women a voice gave them a chance to stick up for themselves earn equal rights

** Connections **
NAACP -figured if the African Americans could form an organization that had and effect, why couldn't they? Civil Rights Act -many women who were involved in the Civil Rights Act were involved in NOW (It inspired them)

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Campaign Techniques The Future  Cause and Effect   The Present-Who is NOW?

//"The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the 20th century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-'Is this all'" -The Feminine Mystique//

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