Crystal Eastman - Elmira, NY
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"Eastman has been called one of the United States' most neglected leaders, because, although she wrote pioneering legislation and created long-lasting political organizations, she disappeared from history for fifty years."
Waymark Code: WMQ02P
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 11/20/2015
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test: "Crystal Eastman 1881- 1928. Fought for safer conditions in American mills, for worker's compensation laws and led women's Peace Party in N.Y. George Pataki, Governor"
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"an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, as a co-founder and co-editor with her brother Max Eastman of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and co-founder in 1920 of the American Civil Liberties Union. In 2000 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York."