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UFCW Local 1428 is a union, headquartered in Claremont, California, which serves the Southern California region and is a part of the United Food and Commercial Workers International. With over 5,000 members who mostly work in grocery stores, drug stores, pharmacies and food processing plants, the union’s goals have been to gain better wages, working conditions and benefits for its members through collective bargaining, and union contracts with employers.

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The Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Local Union 130 UA is one of the largest plumbing unions within the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States & Canada (UA), which represents building tradesmen across the United States and Canada. Local 130 UA has existed for over 120 years with the mission of providing the highest quality plumbing craftsmen through certified education and work placement. Local 130 UA members have played pivotal roles in public and private construction projects in Chicago ranging from reversing the Chicago River to the Deep Tunnel project. Membership includes access to five-year apprentice training programs, health insurance plan, pension plan, specialized advanced journeymen training courses taught at minimal charge, and a savings plan to help members save for a home, car, vacation or unexpected expenses.

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On September 28, 1977, an exposition in New York at the Statler-Hilton Hotel that focused on women in business commenced. Believed to be the first of its kind in the United States, the “Women in Business Week” was sponsored by the New York Association of Women Business Owners and was coordinated by Diana Silcox. The five days consisted of lectures, workshops, seminars, and exhibits to help aspiring businesswomen. Booths were set up that featured goods and services for companies of all sizes, giving women and business representatives the chance to network and showcase what they had to offer others.
One of the speakers at the Statler-Hilton was the president of Dalmatian Enterprises, Inc. Phyllis Yvonne Reed presented “Women in Business Making It in New York.” Phyllis Reed stated, “What we hope to accomplish is to stimulate all factions of our society to open the door to opportunity and progress.” While progressive for the time, Reed’s speech and presentation were not all that she had to offer her community. Two years after her passing from cancer in 2009, Reed was honored with the naming of the intersection of Davidson Avenue and West Kingsbridge Road. Phyllis Yvonne Reed Plaza was unveiled on February 18, 2011 in honor of the Bronx community activist who had been the president of one of the first black-owned advertising agencies.

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“The Future is Female” slogan was coined in the 1970s by Labyris Books, the first women's bookstore in New York City. The slogan was featured on store merchandise including t shirts and pinback buttons. 

This feminist slogan emerged in the 70s within the Lesbian Separatist Movement. In mainstream culture, this movement was described as lesbians who believed they should live in their own society separate from men. They were often described as “militant lesbians” but Lesbian Separatist member Liza Cowan describes the movement as less dogmatic; instead it was a group of people figuring out how to live as women without male interference. 

The slogan gained popularity in the 1970s after Cowan photographed her then girlfriend Alix Dobkin wearing the slogan on a t shirt and featured that photo in an advert for her publication DYKE: A Quarterly. The slogan reemerged in 2015, when the instagram account @h_e_r_s_t_o_r_y featured Cowan’s photo. The slogan was once again printed on t shirts as part of the feminist fashion trend. In 2016, Hillary Clinton used the slogan in her presidential campaign, solidifying its presence in mainstream culture.

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The Black Feminist movement started to appear during the late 1960s and flourished into the 1970s as the defining decade for contemporary Black Feminism. Growing tensions between the Women’s Liberation Movement and the Civil Rights Movement encouraged Black women to build their own movement. Their goal was to separate from the mainstream of white-dominated women’s liberation and establish black feminism centralized around intersectionality. Intersectionality, a term coined in 1989 by Kimberle Crenshaw, examines how multiple identity points including gender, race, and other social categories, work in concert to influence one’s life. Black feminists have to fight on two fronts, equality for gender and race. Currently, Black Feminism has focused on queer and trans black women, girls, and gender nonconforming peoples. A few of the most recognizable Black Feminist figures include: Sojourner Truth, Patricia Hill Collins, Angela Davis, Bell Hooks, Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisholm, and Audre Lorde.

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The feminist fist inside a biological female symbol was first featured on a pinback button at the 1969 Miss America Protests. This protest was organized by the group New York Radical Women to bring attention to how beauty competitions are damaging to women and create unrealistic and unhealthy beauty standards. The symbol gained popularity and quickly became a trademark image for the women’s liberation movement. While the original design featured the fist and biological female symbol in red on a white background, the button has gone on to be produced in many color variations.

The fist symbol has a long history and has been used by oppressed groups as a sign of resistance. While its origins are somewhat unclear, early iterations are found in 1917 propaganda cartoons by the Industrial Workers of the World and during the Spanish Civil War, the fist was an anti-fascist salute used as a greeting by Republican forces fighting against Franco’s Nationalists. Arguably the most famous use of the fist symbol was for the black power movement. The Black Panther Party was known for using the fist to salute each other at meetings, conventions, and rallies. At the 1968 Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, upon receiving their medals, raised gloved fists during the national anthem to show resistance and solidarity with those suffering from oppression, creating one of the most iconic photographs of the century.

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In 1971, as a response to the forming of the National Women’s Caucus, a united, multi-partisan group aimed at equal political representation for women in political offices and the championing of women’s issues in legislation, many cities and states began to form their own caucuses, including the Manhattan Women’s Caucus. The Manhattan Women’s Caucus met and elected council members in March, 1972. Under the banner of, “Make Policy, Not Coffee,” the group’s original aim was to fight for equal representation. They were urging for 50% of political delegate seats and an equal chance at appointed and elected offices. To this end, they trained women for running as delegates, as women lawyers within the group prepared a legal team in case of discrimination attempts. In addition to political equality, the group also took on women’s issues including abortion rights. One of the group’s founding members, Tanya Melich, a former Republican turned Independent, left the Republican party over women’s issues. She was later responsible for coining the phrase, “The Republican War against Women.” In 1973, after the historic Roe Vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling, the Manhattan Women’s Caucus joined up with New York Radical Feminists, The Feminist Coalition, and the NYC branch of the National Organization for Women to create a statewide “Women’s Lobby.” The group’s wishlist included: credit cards for women without reference to marital status, no-fault divorces, the designation of pregnancy and childbirth as a “temporary disability,” and removing restrictions on contraceptives.

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The diaphragm is one of humanity's oldest methods of contraception. The basic concept of the diaphragm has been used for centuries: Ancient Egyptians are said to have inventively used lemon halves or sponges to prohibit insemination. The diaphragm we know today was patented in 1882 by a German doctor Wilhelm Mesigna, and brought to America illegally by Margaret Sanger. 

In 1916, Sanger opened the first birth control clinic through which she gave the women of Brooklyn, NY access to the diaphragm. Her clinic was only open ten days before it was shut down, and Sanger was arrested for committing the illegal act of disseminating “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” information as outlined by the Comstock Law of 1873. 

Due to her influence and her legal battle, this law was later amended to exclude contraceptives. Thus, the diaphragm became one of the most common contraceptives for several decades in the 20th century. Popularity of the diaphragm began to wane in the 1960s with the introduction of oral contraception and the IUD, which were seen by many as simpler and easier methods of birth control.

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Women for Racial and Economic Equality, also known as WREE, was an organization founded by the Communist Party USA. The Communist Party USA is the oldest Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States. The organization put out a bi-monthly bulletin called “The WREE-VIEW,” which was published in New York. While some did include names, many contributors chose to remain a sense of anonymity when published in the newspaper. WREE put out statements that catered to female audiences, especially female racial minority groups. The organization’s appeal was held in the inclusivity of the group as coupled with the logical and emotional draw to audiences. Publishing poetry, articles in multiple languages, and topics relevant to women, the “WREE View of Women for Racial and Economic Equality” also published articles against the Reagan administration and calls to boycott specific companies. Alongside all of these are sometimes well-hidden pieces of Communist propaganda that praised the party and their ideals.