Women Delegates Their Goal
Photograph
Associated Press
American
Women Delegates Their Goal
July 12, 1971
Gelatin silver print
Image: 5 7/8 × 9 1/8 in. (14.9 × 23.2 cm)
Other (typed caption in negative): 1 1/8 × 6 1/2 in. (2.9 × 16.5 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0362.0026
Inscriptions Inscribed in black ink on print verso, CR: Protests [sideways]
TextThis photograph depicts a key event in the US women’s liberation movement: the announcement of the organization of the National Women’s Political Caucus.The four people in the image are Gloria Steinem, a journalist, activist, and cofounder of Ms. magazine; Bella Abzug, a lawyer and member of the House of Representatives (D-NY), 1970–76; Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman in Congress, where she introduced landmark legislation on gender equality and civil rights; and Betty Friedan, whose book The Feminine Mystique (1963) described postwar women’s isolation and intellectual dissatisfaction and thus became a call-to-arms for many American housewives.
—Label text, History of Photography [Rotation 15]
—Label text, History of Photography [Rotation 15]
