NOW Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1

Object number:

H97.23.7

Object name:

newsletter

Title:

NOW Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1

Date made:

October 1970

Material / Technique:

Ink on paper

Credit line:

Gift of Diana Thatcher

Physical description:

Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1, (Berkeley, California) National Organization For Women. Seven sheets of white paper stapled in the upper left corner, printed in black both sides of page. Slight browning on first page.

Content description:

Vol. 1, No. 11 of NOW/National Organization For Women Newsletter. October 1970. Chapter News "NOW Goes Before the City Council" by Marijean Suelzle re: City of Berkeley resolution for State Welfare Commission protesting limitation of child care facilities; "Women Clean Up the Co-op" by Ruth McElhinney re: Women of the Free Future joining forces in challenging sexist hiring practices at the Berkeley Co-op; Berkeley NOW Candidates Night by Marijean Suelzle re: women's movement in national electoral politics - US Senate race, US House of Rep race, speakers: Ron Dellums, Ken Meade, Dianne Feeley; Berkeley Creators Exhibit; East Bay Women's Liberation Committee of the Socialist Workers Party, Bay Area Council for Jail Reform; ERA update; Women's Conference for Liberation and Peace at Lone Mountain, SF; fund raising; dues; Charles Warren campaign fund; "In Defense of Ugliness" by Richard Hayes about conventions of physical beauty; book review of "In Defense of Women" by H.L. Mencken, 1918 written by Dorothy L. Olaechea; info about Women's History Research Center; Bibliography by Marijean Suelzle.

Concepts:

body politics; women's rights; Civil Rights Act; Equal Rights Amendment; job discrimination; gender bias; feminism; child care; Women's Liberation Movement; beauty; electoral politics

Places:

Berkeley, CA; University of California, Berkeley

Persons:

Marijean Suelzle; Ruth McElhinney; Ronald Dellums; Ken Meade; Diane Feeley; Charles Warren; Richard Hayes; Dorothy Lockard Oleachea

Organizations:

Berkeley Chapter National Organization for Women; Women's History Research Center, Inc.; Women of the Free Future; National Organization for Women

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