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Women Strike for Equality

A promotional broadside and series of photographs from the 1970 New York City march.

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Women Strike for Equality
A typed, black and white, Women’s Coalition Strike Headquarters broadside including over 10 self-reflective questions with a call to demonstrate and march down 5th Avenue on August 26, 1970.
Women’s Coalition Strike Headquarters broadside

Women’s Coalition Strike Headquarters broadside. New-York Historical Society.

A black and white, 1970 photograph of female demonstrators of different racial backgrounds marching in New York City, holding a Third World Women’s Alliance banner calling for “Hands off Angela Davis.” On its left side, the banner displays the female symbol as well as a fisted hand at the center of the circle, holding a rifle.
“Hands off Angela Davis”

“Hands off Angela Davis”. Eugene Gordon Photograph Collection, New-York Historical Society.

A black and white, 1970 photograph of female demonstrators marching in New York City, focusing on two handmade signs, the one on the left states “From Adam’s Rib To Women’s Lib” and the one on the right states “I love my husband … I also love my daily rights.”
“From Adam’s Rib to Women’s Lib”

“From Adam’s Rib to Women’s Lib”. Eugene Gordon Photograph Collection, New-York Historical Society.

A black and white, 1970 photograph of demonstrators, mostly female, marching in New York City, including a young woman on a motorcycle driving alongside the protestors. A “Lesbians Unite,” handmade banner, is visible in the background.