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I. ORIGIN “Mme Wation" issue of February 24, 1969, Pages _ 241-244, contained an article by JO FREEMAN (described in article as “a free-lance writer and photographer, is currently compiling a book of readings on the women's Liberation movement’). This article entitled "The New Feminists", (dateline Chicago), states in part as follows: ; “and like the Negro, women have once again begun to revolt. Two major feminist organizations have formed within the last two and a ha}f years. In 1966, the National Organization for Women (NOW) was created under the slogan ‘full equality for women in truly equal partnership with men.' - It is a top-dam structure with an office in Washington. Its some 2,500 members are primarily career women, women whose families are grom and no longer occupy most of their time, and some sympathetic men, : "Tne second feminist group is not exactly an organization, but a loose confederation of about seventy-five "sister chapters' spread across most of the United States and Canada. It has no national structure but does mail a mewsletter from Chicago..s.s i 1 ‘ =3- [gxciosugt foa- 4AZIZ3-F