Original Pictures from the Real Events of “Mrs. America.”
May 21, 2020
Imagine America today, if only one women’s movement had arisen, instead of two…What the full power of womanhood might have wrought.
In July 1977, Harriet Lyons, then-editor at Ms. Magazine, and I attended the New York State women’s meeting in Albany, New York, in order to cast our vote for delegates to the first ever National Women’s Convention, funded by the federal government, that was to be held the following November at the University of Houston, in Texas. It was during this awesome moment that Bella was having one of her major fits, another friend recalls. Something triggered it–perhaps the selection of delegates.
