Lizeth Gamino
Professor Leonhardt
History 300
November 2, 2016
Presentation Summary
Crystal Catherine Eastman was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts on June 25, 1881 and died on July 8, 1928. She was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best known as a leader in the fight for women's rights or better known as the women’s suffrage. She was also a co-founder and co-editor of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, and co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Not to mention she also co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920. In 2000 she was placed into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York for her astonishing work and dedication.
In 1883 her parents, Samuel Elijah Eastman and Annis Bertha Ford, moved to Canandaigua, New York, and Eastman graduated from Vassar College in 1903. She later received an M.A. in sociology from Columbia University …show more content…
This social reform aimed to increase availability of contraception through education and legalization. This movement was helped led by Emma Goldman, Mary Dennett and Margaret Sanger. Eastman strongly believed that Feminism is not a simple subject, but a complexed one. It meant political freedom, freedom to participate in things men were notorious for doing, sex freedom, and most importantly, all economic freedom. She wanted to encourage women to stop limiting themselves and to leave behind the mentality of being nothing more than homemakers. Eastman thought that the point of feminism wouldn’t be fully attained if women didn’t learn to want complete economic independence and to get this without depriving themselves out of the joys of also being a mother and a wife. To her, birth control was a way for women to grow and prosper. Birth control would allow women to not fear unexpected children or how many they could have because they could be in charge of such
Professor Leonhardt
History 300
November 2, 2016
Presentation Summary
Crystal Catherine Eastman was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts on June 25, 1881 and died on July 8, 1928. She was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best known as a leader in the fight for women's rights or better known as the women’s suffrage. She was also a co-founder and co-editor of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, and co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Not to mention she also co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920. In 2000 she was placed into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York for her astonishing work and dedication.
In 1883 her parents, Samuel Elijah Eastman and Annis Bertha Ford, moved to Canandaigua, New York, and Eastman graduated from Vassar College in 1903. She later received an M.A. in sociology from Columbia University …show more content…
This social reform aimed to increase availability of contraception through education and legalization. This movement was helped led by Emma Goldman, Mary Dennett and Margaret Sanger. Eastman strongly believed that Feminism is not a simple subject, but a complexed one. It meant political freedom, freedom to participate in things men were notorious for doing, sex freedom, and most importantly, all economic freedom. She wanted to encourage women to stop limiting themselves and to leave behind the mentality of being nothing more than homemakers. Eastman thought that the point of feminism wouldn’t be fully attained if women didn’t learn to want complete economic independence and to get this without depriving themselves out of the joys of also being a mother and a wife. To her, birth control was a way for women to grow and prosper. Birth control would allow women to not fear unexpected children or how many they could have because they could be in charge of such