
Original Pictures from the Real Events of “Mrs. America.”
From top to bottom: Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president
The way life used to be for women, NJ, 1975
“Revolutionary greetings!”
Gloria Steinem speaks at the opening of the First Women’s Bank
Betty Friedan signing the renewed Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls, September, 1977
One of the last suffragists riding in a car at the Women’s Strike for Equality, the great women’s march down Fifth Avenue, August 26, 1970.
The Moral Majority’s Alternative Conference at Ashton Hall, Houston, 1977
Phyllis Schlafly, Republican National Convention, Detroit, Michigan 1980
Reactionary Conservative women outside the Conference Center, 1977
With delegates former NOW president Karen DeCrow hails passage of the ERA resolution at the National Conference, 1977
Delegate-at-large Betty Friedan waits her turn to speak at the microphone amidst conservative activists attempting to take over the conference
“Passing the torch.”
The Moral Majority’s Alternative Conference at Ashton Hall, Houston, 1977
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