N.O.W.
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The Creation of N.O.W.: Kay Clarenbach & Betty Friedan
I have been working on the creation of the National Organization for women and the role of Kay Clarenbach & Betty Friedan. This image is from the second meeting of the organization. Clarenbach has been largely overlooked in the history of N.O.W. My women and politics book will detail Clarenbach’s story. Clarenbach was good friends with Wisconsin’s women’s page editors and encouraged them to present reasonable media coverage of the women’s group. One of the only journalists to an early N.O.W. meeting was Milwaukee Journal women’s page editor Dorothy Witte Austin.