Free Download The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BK338T5R | 2023 | 12 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 372 MB
Author: Katherine Turk
Narrator: Kimberly M. Wetherell
The history of NOW-its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission-told through the work of three members. In the summer of 1966, crammed into a DC hotel suite and passing paper cups of liquor, twenty-eight women hatched a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had quietly pulled away attendees from the State Womens’ Commissions annual conference. Frustrated with government inertia, they laid out a vision for an organization to unite and advocate for all women. Inspired, challenged, skeptical, they debated the idea late into the night and the next day. By the end of the conference, the National Organization of Women was born.
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