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Step by Step: Building a Feminist Movement, 1941–1977
  • Date: Friday, June 28, 2019
  • Time: 4:00 pm
  • Location: William G. McGowan Theater, Washington, DC

This film by Joyce Follet follows the lives of eight Midwestern women, six of whom became founders of NOW. Their stories illustrate the continuity and diversity of 20th-century feminism, as they describe the labor, civil rights, and political movements of the 1940s and 1950s that led them to take action. (1998; 56 minutes.)

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