What Did Suffrage Leader Alice Paul tell FFL Co-Founder Pat Goltz about the ERA and Abortion? August 25,2023 On Women’s Equality Day, August 26th, we celebrate the day women won the right to vote in 1920. Three years later, Alice Paul would draft the original Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), seeking to end the legal distinction […]
Daughter to Emmeline, sister to Christabel, Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (English, 1882-1960) was perhaps the most reserved—though no less dedicated—member of the Women’s Social and Political Union’s founding family. Pankhurst designed banners, posters, and other promotional materials for the militant WSPU, but eventually left, opting to provide practical help to women by instituting a daycare, a
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María Adelina Isabel Emilia “Nina” Luna Otero was born on October 23, 1881. Her birthplace near Los Lunas, New Mexico, is about a half hour south of Albuquerque. Nina’s family were well-off, well-educated members of the Hispanos of New Mexico, which was still a U.S. territory at the time. Hispanos are New Mexicans whose ancestry traces
As pro-life feminists well know, today’s “Second Wave” of feminism, which began in the 1960s, has not uniformly promoted greater acceptance of abortion. Consider the dissent of Chicana activist Graciela Olivarez, a high school dropout who became the first woman graduate of Notre Dame Law School. Along with Feminine Mystique author Betty Friedan and 26 others, Olivarez