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Memorial for Lynda Tipton
Lynda Tipton worked briefly as a staff person for Chicago Women’s Liberation Union and was a group leader in the CWLU Liberation School. Throughout her life Lynda was an activist for social justice....
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Voices of Chicago Women Activists and Leaders: Oral Histories 1945 - 2000
Chicago Area Women's History Council and Columbia College Honors Oral History Class invites you to a program of student oral history presentations in connection with our project: "Voices of Chicago...
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Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum
Revolution Books & Wicker Park Public Library present: Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum May 29, 2013 6 - 8pm 1701 N. Milwaukee Ave. Author reading, book signing and refreshments "The...
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100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage in Illinois
In June 1913, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi to grant women the right to vote for presidential electors and some local offices. The League of Women Voters Chicago is holding a...
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Unmentionables: A New Novel by Laurie Loewenstein
In Laurie Lowenstein's debut historial novel, main character Marian Elliot Adams an outspoken advocate for sensible undergarments for women, sweeps onto the Chautauqua stage under a brown canvas tent...
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A Revolutionary Moment: a conference on the women's liberation movement
A conference on the women's liberation movement, "A Revolutionary Moment", is being held in BostonMarch 27-29. The conference website,www.bu.edu/wgs/conference2014, includes information on the...
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Bob Simpson, a longtime social justice activist in Chicago, spent his International Women's Day covering the protests of women employed in fast food and retail as part of the ongoing Fight for 15...
View ArticleThe Lives of Immigrant Women
This article, written by Christine Riddiough and published at the website of the Democratic Socialists of America, takes up the intersections of the women's struggle with those of immigrant families...
View ArticleThe Past and Future of Feminism
Over 600 people came to Boston University from March 27th through 29th to attend the conference “A Revolutionary Moment: Women’s Liberation in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.” Though a great many of...
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The following article from Vivian Rothstein on March's women's liberation conference appeared originally at Capital & Main on April 3rd. The civil rights movement of the 1960s is now iconic. Who...
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