Abortion Feminist Movement

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Seneca Falls Convention

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an assembly held at Seneca Falls, NY. Launched the women’s rights movement in the U.S.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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first leader of the organized women’s rights movement and the organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention

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Susan B. Anthony

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an early feminist strategist and leader, became the co-leader of The Revolution and wrote newspaper to spread ideas

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Alice Paul

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a vocal leader of the 20th-century women’s suffrage movement. Helped secure the 19th Amendment

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19th Amendment

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granted American women the right to vote

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Margaret Sanger

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controversial founder of the birth control movement

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The Pill

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Funded by Margaret Sanger, scientists began working on a birth control pill

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Feminine Mystique

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a 1963 landmark book by Betty Friedan

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Equal Pay Act

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a labor law that prohibits wage discrimination on the basis of sex in the U.S.

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Gloria Steinem

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political feminist activist, and editor for women’s rights

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Fannie Lou Hamer

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a southern Black feminist who was forcibly sterilized by a white doctor

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NOW

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American feminist organization founded by Betty Frieder that promoted equal rights for women

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Family Law Act of 1969

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signed by California governor Ronal Raegan, allowed no fault divorces

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Title IX

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a federal civil rights law in the U.S. that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school education program

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Roe v. Wade

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1973 Supreme Court case that essentially legalized abortion

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Milfred Jefferson

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first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School

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Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978

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prohibits discrimination based on pregnancy and added to the Civil Rights Act