Women's Liberation Movement

Feminist protesters disrupted the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.

A Revolutionary Festival at the University of Essex resulted in the setting up all over Britain of Women's Liberation Groups or Workshops; London alone had five.

During this decade 117 towns and cities in Britain had at least one Women's Liberation Movement group; many major centres had several.

Women's Liberation member Marilyn Webb founded the women's newspaperoff our backs.

A Maoist group based in Hertfordshire began publishing the Women's Liberation Union Newsletter.

Karen Kollias , Liz O'Sullivan , and six other affiliates of the Washington, DC, Women's Liberation organization founded the DC Rape Crisis Center , which included a phone line providing callers with counselling and medical information.

Women's Struggle, a bulletin of the Women's National Co-ordinating Committee , ended publication from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

The Feminist Archive was formed to preserve documents of Women's Liberation in Britain; founded at Shepton Mallet in Somerset, it later divided its material between two sites, Bristol and Bradford.

The Red Rag, produced by a Marxist collective of the Women's Liberation Movement in London, ended publication.