Historical Coalition & Organizing Network
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Media & Storytelling
Cross-Racial Coalition
Institutional & Legal
Grassroots Mobilization
Consciousness-Raising (CR) Circles (Active Focus)
Steinem and grassroots organizers converted private personal isolation into collective structural political rage. Women realized their individual domestic or workplace subordination was systemic policy rather than personal deficiency.
Primary Source Organizing Principles & Field Records
Steinem & Coalition AlliesCore operational tenets extracted from speaking tour dispatches, Ms. Magazine editorial manifestos, and NWPC founding assemblies.
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are still governed by the myth of natural hierarchy.”
Gloria Steinem — Address to Address Congress, 1970
“Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. We need childcare, family care, and shared human responsibility.”
Gloria Steinem — Speaking Tour with Dorothy Pitman Hughes
“You cannot fight sexism without fighting racism and economic class exploitation at the exact same moment. Our fists must stay raised together.”
Dorothy Pitman Hughes — Community Organizer, 1971
“Don't agonize, organize. Anger without structural machinery is just noise; anger with coalitional levers changes the constitution.”
Florynce “Flo” Kennedy — Feminist Advocate & Civil Rights Pioneer