National Organization forWomen Statement of Purpose

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National Organization forWomen Statement of Purpose
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844025.book-part-120

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Abstract

The National Organization for Women (NOW) adopted its statement of purpose when gathering for its first national conference in Washington, DC. The statement, which was officially approved on October 29, 1966, was written by Betty Friedan (1921–2006), author of the foundational feminist book The Feminine Mystique (1963), and Pauli Murray (1910–1985), a civil rights activist and, later in life, Episcopal priest. Just four months earlier, on June 30, 1966, NOW had been founded by delegates to the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women.

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