Posted on 09/21/2005 11:40:20 AM PDT by socal_parrot
Who was she?
Rot in Peace
How many infants are buried in Molly's Yard?
Former NOW President Molly Yard Dies at 93
AP via Yahoo! News - 33 minutes ago
Molly Yard, the longtime liberal activist who led the National Organization for Women during the fight over the nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, has died. She was 93.
Feminist and ex NOW Pres.
The original "stuck on stupid" member of the socialistic influenced womens' movement provocatix
Her voice is very unfeminine.
Molly Yard (born July 6, 1912 in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China as Mary Alexander Yard, the daughter of Methodist missionaries) is a U.S. administrator, social activist, and feminist who served as National Organization for Women President from 1987 to 1991. Having previously served as an assistant to Eleanor Roosevelt, she connected first-wave feminism with second-wave feminism. She received the Feminist Majority Foundation's lifetime achievement award for "tireless work for women's rights, for women and girls in sports, for the Equal Rights Amendment for Women, for civil rights for all Americans, for her championing of the trade union movement, and her devotion to world peace and non-violence."
Molly Yard graduated in the 1930s from Swarthmore College, a coeducational college that was also the alma mater of Alice Paul, a pioneering feminist and suffragist who drafted the Equal Rights Amendment.
Molly Yard moved to Pittsburgh in in 1953 and worked in the gubernatorial campaign of Mayor David L. Lawrence in 1958; headed the Western Pennsylvania presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and George McGovern in 1972; and was co-chairman with Mayor Joseph M. Barr of the unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign of Jeannette Reibman in 1976.
Miss Yard made an unsuccessful run for the state Legislature as a candidate from the city's 14th Ward in 1964.
Miss Yard became active in NOW while a resident of Squirrel Hill in 1974, and she joined the national staff in 1978 during the campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, serving as a lobbyist in Washington. She raised more than $1 million in less than six months for that drive.
She passed away in her sleep at age 93 on September 21, 2005.
In related news - FReeper finds use for decomposing anarchist, starts worm ranch.
Aging scag at the helm of NOW.
Former leader of N.O.W.
Was she with the "Yard Birds?" :-}
God to Molly Yard - I am OUTRAGED by you, OUTRAGED!
Former head of NOW, or the NAGS as Rush calls them.
OMG..she sounds like a real *itch.
Not Molly Ivins?
dang
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Yard
According to deadoraliveinfo.com she is still alive...
http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/ynames-nf/Yard+Molly
I love that 'Dead Or Alive' site!
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