"reached number 16 in Canada and went all the way to number 2 in Puerto Rico . It was to be the last Billboard Hot 100 hit single for the group. That record also signaled the end of the Motown era. After two successive Top 40 R&B singles, the ballad ""In and Out of My Life"" (#22 US R&B) and the Marvin Gaye cover, ""Tear It On Down"" (#37 US R&B), the group disbanded following a farewell concert, held at Detroit's Cobo Hall on December 21, 1972, but Martha Reeves is still often billed as ‘Martha Reeves& The Vandellas’. The"
"ratification of the amendment, NOW encouraged members to participate in marches and economic boycotts. ""Dozens of organizations supported the ERA and the boycott, including the League of Women Voters, the YWCA of the U.S., the Unitarian Universalist Association, the United Auto Workers (UAW), the National Education Association (NEA), and the Democratic National Committee (DNC)."" As strong as the support was, it was to no avail to the opposition from various groups. These groups included select religious collectives, business/ insurance interests, and most visibly was the STOP-ERA campaign led by antifeminist Phyllis Schlafly. Schlafly argued on the premise of creating equality"
"Count My Vote initiative was supported by many prominent Democrat and moderate Republican political leaders within Utah, including Mike Leavitt (R), Rich McKeown (R), Norma Matheson (D), Gail Miller (R), Ben McAdams (D), Norm Bangerter (R), Kirk Jowers, Ralph Becker (D), Pat Jones (D), Eleanor Muth (R), and Sheryl Allen (R). It was also supported by left leaning organizations such as the Utah Student’s Association, Utah Parent-Teacher Association, Utah School Boards Associations, Utahns for Public Schools, Utah Education Association, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the League of Women Voters. Count My Vote was also supported by former"
"this country"". Howard had strong public support in the immediate aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, especially from those people who regularly voted against the Liberal Party. The Nationals had strong support from rural voters, some of whom were opposed to the government's moves towards gun control. The National Firearms Agreement has had continuing support from both Labor and Coalition federal governments. The National Coalition for Gun Control (NCGC) had a high profile in the public debate up to and immediately after the Port Arthur massacre. Rebecca Peters, Roland Browne, Simon Chapman and Reverend Tim Costello appeared in media reports"
"the state government when the schools were integrated in 1960. Although the majority of white society protested against integration, there were some who supported the African-Americans' cause. For example, in 1960, a group of white women led by Rosa Keller and Gladys Kahn formed a protest assembly called Save Our Schools (SOS) to keep schools open under desegregation. This party grew up to 1500 members, and effectively produced newsletters, gained support of local officials, and advertised in all parts of the media to encourage integration. On November 14, 1960, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne and Tessie Prevost, along with Ruby Bridges,"
"groups like Indie Voter, Youth Voter Alliance, and [[Rock the Vote]], as well as fellow satirists [[Billionaires for Bush]] and [[Code Pink]]. Celebrities such as [[Moby]], [[Susan Sarandon]], and [[Outkast]]'s [[Andre 3000]], and [[Jesse Jackson]] supported the panties. On election day 2004, members of the group allied themselves with [[Annie A-Bomb]] and Melissa Bang-Bang, burlesque performers who are now part of the [[Cabaret Red Light]], for an effort to increase voter turn out in Pennsylvania, considered a ""swing"" state that year. [[Image:Axisofevephiladelphia.jpeg|260px|Axis of Eve Action Philadelphia 2004 Annie A-Bomb and Melissa Bang-Bang Photo by Pete Checchia]] [[Category:Women's political advocacy groups"
"nationwide show of support. All attendees to the ERCHO meeting in Philadelphia voted for the march except for Mattachine Society of New York, which abstained. Members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) attended the meeting and were seated as guests of Rodwell's group, Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods (HYMN). Meetings to organize the march began in early January at Rodwell's apartment in 350 Bleecker Street. At first there was difficulty getting some of the major New York City organizations like Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) to send representatives. Craig Rodwell and his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, Michael Brown, Marty Nixon,"
"manager of the Minerva Club, the WFL's residential club in Brunswick Square. There, she organised annual birthday parties for Charlotte Despard as fundraisers for the WFL, and Despard travelled from Ireland each year to attend. The club was in the heart of Bloomsbury, and Reeves befriended many of the Bloomsbury Set. She also came to know many other residents of the area, and during World War II she founded the London Emergency Apartment Keepers' Society (LEAKS) to support the many local owners of boarding houses and hotels. Reeves served on the national executive of the WFL for many years, and"
"others, including Freda Kirchwey and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., following Neibuhr's break with the Socialist Party led by the temporarily isolationist Norman Thomas. During the war the UDA—forerunner of the Americans for Democratic Action—supported Henry Wallace's crusade for 'full employment' based on the notion that, as Kirchwey put it, ""only a New Deal for the World...can prevent the coming of World War III."" According to her biographer Sara Alpern, Freda Kirchwey enthusiastically endorsed the """"Free world"" group and its publication,"" so much so that she ""lent her editor Robert Bendiner to serve as their managing editor, and her bookkeeper, Adeline Henkel,"
"Perkins Gilman, Helen Keller, Belle Case La Follette, May Wright Sewall and educators such as Emma Gillett, Maria Montessori, and Clara Louise Thompson, a Latin Professor at Rockford College, among others, to lend credibility to the new organization. Stevens became the national organizer, charged with organizing women in states in which they were able to vote to use their ballots and oppose any candidate not in favor of full enfranchisement of women. One of the first places Stevens traveled to was Colorado, where CUWS was successful in attaining commitment from one congressman to support the women's cause. Returning from that"
"declined in membership, but continued under the leadership of Marian Reeves to organise annual birthday parties for Despard, and maintain the Minerva Club in Brunswick Square. Following Reeves' death, in 1961, the organisation voted to dissolve. After the creation of the Women's Freedom League in 1907, it continued to grow rapidly throughout Great Britain. The league consisted of sixty branches and had nearly four thousand members. The league established its own newspaper called ""The Vote"". Members of the League were writers, which led to the production of this newspaper. ""The Vote"" became the primary means of communication with the public,"
"sister, Martha Coffin Wright, also helped organize the convention and signed the declaration. Noted abolitionist and human rights activist Frederick Douglass was in attendance and played a key role in persuading the other attendees to agree to a resolution calling for women's suffrage. After the Civil War, Mott was elected the first president of the American Equal Rights Association, an organization that advocated universal suffrage. She resigned from the association in 1868 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony allied with a controversial businessman named George Francis Train. Mott tried to reconcile the two factions that split the following"
"protected by the department. In 1971, the Moratorium Committee underwent a shift in their organizational focus from protesting the Vietnam War and police brutality against Chicanos to building support for La Raza Unida Party. This shift in support of RUP came after then California Governor Reagan's ""right-wing attacks on minorities and working people"". The Moratorium Committee along with activist groups from Coachella and Imperial Valleys as well as members from the East L.A. Brown Berets began organizing a march that would go span over 800 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border to Sacramento. The march primarily focused on gathering support from"
"Martha Cheavens Martha Cheavens (1899–1975) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet, several of whose works were adapted for the screen. The oldest child of John Self Cheavens, a Baptist missionary and founder of the National Baptist Convention of Mexico, Martha Louise Cheavens was raised in Mexico and Texas. She graduated in 1922 from the Missouri School of Journalism. She was married to Hugh J. Schuck, a foreign editor for the New York ""Daily News"". They raised a son, Hugh Schuck Junior, and an adopted daughter, Nancy Proudman. The couple lived in Great Neck, New York and King of"
"group. The group opposed the 1978 Panama Canal treaties and the Jimmy Carter-Leonid Brezhnev SALT II treaties in 1979, supported the Strategic Defense Initiative and major tax reductions during the 1980s, and fought to end Federal subsidies to activist groups under the banner of ""defunding the Left."" In 1982, Phillips joined the political activist Clymer Wright of Houston, Texas, in an unsuccessful effort to convince U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan to dismiss Houston attorney James A. Baker, III, from the position of presidential chief of staff. Phillips and Wright claimed that Baker, a former Democrat and a political intimate of"
"in the suffrage movement is demonstrated by her inclusion in the program of the 60th Anniversary Celebration of the Seneca Falls convention, held Oct 15-21,1908 in Buffalo, NY. In addition to some of the original convention attendees, the anniversary celebration included Mary Keith, Jane Addams, Alice Stone Blackwell, Harriet May Mills, Cary Thomas, Dorothy Dix, and Rev Antoinette Brown. Although she often got to speak to audiences who were supportive of woman suffrage, she was also concerned by the number of people, especially women, who remained uncommitted or indifferent to the cause and needed to be slowly and cautiously convinced"
"Rita Mae Brown and Kate Millett. Barbara helped to organize some of the group's demonstrations and participated in the demonstration against ""The New York Times"", Colgate-Palmolive, and men-only restaurants and hotels. The demonstration against ""The New York Times"" called for integration of want ads for men and women. At that time there was a 25% discount for jobs filled by women, which is an equal pay for equal work issue. Friedan, reflecting the tenor of some other heterosexual members of NOW, stated initially that the presence of lesbians in the organization was damaging to their image. Barbara Love's public response"
"by Rite Aid founder Lewis Lehrman and organized by anti-Communist activists Jack Abramoff and Jack Wheeler, participants included Savimbi, Adolfo Calero, leader of the Nicaraguan Contras, Pa Kao Her, Hmong Laotian rebel leader, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, South African security forces, Abdurrahim Wardak, Afghan Mujahideen leader, Jack Wheeler, American conservative policy advocate, and many others. While the Reagan administration, though unwilling to publicly support the meeting, privately expressed approval. The governments of Israel and South Africa supported the idea, but both respective countries were deemed inadvisable for hosting the conference. The United States House of Representatives voted 236 to"
"of the Brinks robbery and the Resistance Conspiracy case. Throughout the underground years, the Weather Underground members worked closely with their counterparts in other organizations, including Jane Alpert, to bring attention their further actions to the press. She helped Weatherman pursue their main goal of overthrowing the U.S. government through her writings. However, there were tensions within the organization, brought about by her famous manifesto, ""Mother Right"", that specifically called on the female members of the organization to focus on their own cause rather than anti-imperialist causes. Weather members then wrote in response to her manifesto. Widely known members of"
"local neighborhood groups that opposed the roadway extension. Raymond S. Rubinow eventually took over the organization, changing its name to the ""Joint Emergency Committee to Close Washington Square to Traffic."" Jacobs had joined the committee under Hayes, but took a more prominent role under Rubinow, reaching out to media outlets such as ""The Village Voice"", which provided more sympathetic coverage than ""The New York Times"". The committee gained the support of Margaret Mead, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lewis Mumford, Charles Abrams, and William H. Whyte, as well as Carmine De Sapio, Greenwich Village resident and influential Democratic leader. De Sapio's involvement proved"
"professional associations, including the Woman's Bar Association of the District of Columbia and the National Association of Women Lawyers. After the VA told her they would never hire a woman lawyer for their legal department, she founded the law firm of Matthews, Berrien, and Greathouse with two other women attorneys, who were also National Woman's Party members. Matthews worked closely with the suffragist National Woman's Party, eventually serving as the organization's counsel. She represented the party in its effort to prevent condemnation of its Washington headquarters by the federal government; the land was condemned in order for the U.S. Supreme"
"Martha Coffin Wright Martha Coffin Wright (December 25, 1806 – 1875) was an American feminist, abolitionist, and signatory of the Declaration of Sentiments who was a close friend and supporter of Harriet Tubman. Martha Coffin was born in Boston, Massachusetts on Christmas Day 1806, the youngest child of Anna Folger and Thomas Coffin, a merchant and former Nantucket ship captain. After the Coffin family moved to Philadelphia, Martha was educated at Quaker schools. Martha Coffin Wright was the youngest of eight children some of her well-known siblings names were Sarah, Lucretia, Eliza, Mary, and Thomas. All of her siblings were"
"1932 Amsterdam congress established the American Committee for Struggle Against War, soon afterwards renamed the American League Against War and Fascism. This group was backed by many prominent American intellectuals, and claimed millions of members. Most of the American pacifists who supported the League understood its close connection to the Communists and goal of protecting Soviet Russia, but were willing to tolerate this given the growing risk of war. Ella Reeve Bloor (1862-1951) of the American Communist Party attended the women's congress in Paris in 1934 and was elected to the World Committee. She became a member of the National"
"an investigation."" Rosa Parks, in her instrumental work to bring justice for Taylor, spearheaded the creation of the ""Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor"" (CEJRT). It quickly gathered national support, with local chapters springing up across the United States. The group had an illustrious membership; ""luminaries included W.E.B. Du Bois; Mary Church Terrell, a suffragist and founder of the National Association of Colored Women; Charlotte Hawkins Brown, a popular clubwoman and respected educator; Ira De A. Reid, a sociologist and assistant director of the new formed Southern Regional Council; John Sengstacke, the publisher of the Chicago Defender; Countee"
"of Defense Don Rumsfeld as well as automobile executives from Detroit and oil tycoons from across Texas. It was in this campaign too that Bush first met his political operative and long-term advisor, Karl Rove. Reagan political advisor Lyn Nofziger urged the former governor to support Reese because of Reese's political experience and past loyalty to Reagan. Nofziger dispatched Reese a $1,000 check from Reagan's political action committee, Citizens for the Republic. After Reagan donated to the Reese campaign, Texas gubernatorial candidate Bill Clements and his wife, the former Rita Crocker, visited Reagan at the former governor's home in Pacific"
"was Phyllis Schlafly and her STOP ERA organization, there were other important groups in the opposition as well, such as the powerful National Council of Catholic Women, labor feminists and (until 1973) the AFL–CIO. Opposition to the amendment was particularly high among religious conservatives, who argued that the amendment would guarantee universal abortion rights and the right for homosexual couples to marry. Critchlow and Stachecki say the anti-ERA movement was based on strong backing among Southern whites, Evangelical Christians, Mormons, Orthodox Jews, and Roman Catholics, including both men and women. Sonia Johnson, a traditionally-raised Mormon housewife whose eventual feminist advocacy"
"for the wrong."" Mott cited Bible passages that proved Grew wrong. William Lloyd Garrison stood up to halt the debate, saying that nearly everyone present agreed that all were equal in the eyes of God. At Smith & Nixon's Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 17–18, 1855, Martha Coffin Wright presided over the standing room only crowd. Wright, a younger sister of Lucretia Mott and a founding member of the first Seneca Falls Convention, contrasted the large hall packed with supporters to the much smaller gathering in 1848, called ""in timidity and doubt of our own strength, our own capacity,"
"was Stone's brother's brother-in-law, and Sam Wood. Olympia Brown arrived in Kansas on July 1 to relieve Stone and Blackwell as leader of the AERA campaign, handling that task almost single-handedly until Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton arrived in September. The AERA could not afford to send more activists because money that had expected to support their campaign had been blocked by Wendell Phillips, a leading abolitionist. Although he supported women's rights, Phillips believed that suffrage for African American men was the key issue of the day, and he objected to mixing the issues of suffrage for blacks"
"June 28, 1969 with the Stonewall Riots, when police raided a New York gay bar called the Stonewall Inn and the patrons fought back. Lesbian Martha Shelley was in Greenwich Village the night of the Stonewall Riot; she proposed a protest march and as a result the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis sponsored a demonstration. Later that year, on November 2, 1969, Craig Rodwell, his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, and Linda Rhodes proposed the first gay pride parade to be held in New York City by way of a resolution at the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations"
"to transform itself into the American Equal Rights Association (AERA), whose purpose was to campaign for the equal rights of all citizens, especially the right of suffrage. In addition to Anthony and Stanton, who organized the convention, the leadership of the new organization included such prominent abolitionist and women's rights activists as Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone and Frederick Douglass. Its drive for universal suffrage, however, was resisted by some abolitionist leaders and their allies in the Republican Party, who wanted women to postpone their campaign for suffrage until it had first been achieved for male African Americans. Horace Greeley, a"
"Marty Robinson of the Gay and Lesbian Anti-defamation League (now the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD). Robinson, whom Petrelis remembered meeting by chance one night outside New York City's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center on West 13th Street, as the two men waited for a GLAAD meeting to begin, was a veteran activist. Throughout the 1960s, he had been active in the Mattachine Society, one of the first homophile organizations in the United States. He was present at the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village bar, when officers from the New York City Police Department raided"
"Wright on the 200th anniversary of her birth and her induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame"" passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. Martha Coffin Wright Martha Coffin Wright (December 25, 1806 – 1875) was an American feminist, abolitionist, and signatory of the Declaration of Sentiments who was a close friend and supporter of Harriet Tubman. Martha Coffin was born in Boston, Massachusetts on Christmas Day 1806, the youngest child of Anna Folger and Thomas Coffin, a merchant and former Nantucket ship captain. After the Coffin family moved to Philadelphia, Martha was educated at Quaker schools. Martha Coffin"
"out of the previously ""obstructionist"" committee. Meanwhile, a small group of social conservatives, unknown to Henry or LeBlanc, were giving speeches in parts of the state where they sought to switch the votes of four Democratic representatives on the committee. These lawmakers were John W. ""Jock"" Scott of Alexandria, Michael F. ""Mike"" Thompson of Lafayette, Lane A. Carson of New Orleans, and A. J. McNamara of Metairie. It was believed that the Pentecostal Church, which opposed ERA and was influential in Rapides Parish, convinced Scott to reverse his position. Pro-life and anti-feminist groups in Lafayette and New Orleans persuaded Thompson"