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women's rights movement

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The ’60s and ’70s looked, on balance, like an era of progress to many on the left, but the women’s rights movement, the post-Stonewall gay rights movement, Black Power, the Chicano movement, and the American Indian Movement looked very different to those on the far right, and they became nightmare fuel for a very different horror show.

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The resulting court case was a major milestone for the women’s rights movement.

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He also embraced the women’s rights movement, helped formerly enslaved people fleeing to freedom with the Underground Railroad, and bought a printing press so he could run his own newspaper, The North Star.

In Philadelphia, the Female Anti-Slavery Society is founded by, among others, Charlotte Forten, granddaughter of black abolition pioneer James Forten, and Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two future leaders of the women’s rights movement.

During that time, she became a political activist in the women’s rights movement.

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