At Berkeley in the Sixties by Jo Freeman

También fue una de las primeras activistas del movimiento de liberación de las mujeres en Estados Unidos durante la segunda ola del feminismo en la década de 1960. En la década de 1960, cuando era estudiante en la Universidad de Berkeley, se involucró activamente en organizaciones en defensa de las libertades civiles y en el movimiento por los derechos civiles primero en favor de las personas afroamericanas y después a las mujeres.

Jo Freeman (Atlanta, Georgia, 26 de agosto de 1945) es una politóloga, escritora y abogada feminista estadounidense.

September 7: The ' Miss America Protest' by New York Radical Women at the Miss America pageant brought widespread media attention to women's liberation.

February 23: The EEOC ruled that being female was not a bona fide occupational qualification of being a flight attendant.Women for the first Seattle women's liberation group after a male organizer for SDS at a meeting said that 'balling a chick together' enhanced the political consciousness of poor white young men. A woman in the audience had called out, 'And what did it do for the consciousness of the chick?'.Women at the Dagenham (UK) Ford factory stage a strike for equal pay, nearly stopping work at all the UK Ford automobile plants.

The National Welfare Rights Organization was founded, with 22,000 members by the next year.

The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) was founded.The Women's Equity Action League broke off from NOW to avoid the 'controversial' issues of sexuality, reproductive choice, and the Equal Rights Amendment.Shirley Chisholm became the first African-American woman elected to the U.S.NOW formed a special committee to launch a major campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment.

At Berkeley in the Sixties by Jo Freeman