More Than A Magazine, A Movement
Though they had to do it illegally, two women have now run in the Boston Marathon! Kathrine Switzer and Roberta Gibb ran today despite the race having been strictly limited to male athletes since its beginning in 1897 and the determination of officials to keep it that way.
April 19, 1929: Outrageous as the April 15th raid on the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau may have been, it was quite gratifying to see that it caused 500 people to come to the Jefferson Market Courthouse in Greenwich Village this morning to show their support for the two doctors and three nurses who were […]
This has certainly been a busy day for the National American Woman Suffrage Association!
Victory for the woman suffrage movement—and then equal pay for equal work—must be rapidly approaching if today is any example of the growing momentum that’s now being generated in favor of our cause.
It was announced today that a list of New York City law firms willing to hire women is being prepared by Kappa Beta Pi, a legal sorority, so female graduates of law schools will not have to waste their time applying to local firms that will automatically reject their applications.
Dr. Hannah Mayer Stone, the The Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau’s medical director, Dr. Elizabeth Pissoort, assistant director, and nurses Antoinette Field, Sigrid H. Brestwell, and Marcella Sideri were charged with violation of Section 1142 of the New York State Penal Code, which bans birth control devices and contraceptive information as “obscene” items.
“If I could be sure that women as a class would exercise the franchise, I would be in favor of it. At present time there exists in my mind considerable doubt.”
Suffragists can sometimes be a tough audience, as President Taft discovered today.
Grove Press, in New York City, became the third media target of the women’s liberation movement in the past month as activists led by Robin Morgan staged a sit-in today to protest Grove’s sexual exploitation of women in its publications, as well as its union-busting policies.
By a unanimous vote, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed the State Assembly today, and now goes to the Senate. If passed there and signed into law by Governor Cahill (R), the bill would ban discrimination in credit on the basis of sex or marital status statewide.
New York State’s referendum on woman suffrage is nearly seven months in the future, but anyone visiting the Suffrage Shop today would think that it was this coming Tuesday.