When Everything Changed (59 page)

One of the duties of flight attendants on the all-male Executive Flight between New York and Chicago was to light their passengers’ cigars.
(United Airlines)

The seventeen women who served in Congress in the late 1950s, including Margaret Chase Smith, eighth from left, stand on the Capitol steps for a group portrait.
(AP Images)

Betty Friedan, shown here in her apartment in 1981, founded the National Organization for Women by passing notes around a government luncheon in Washington. (
Neal Boenzi /
New York Times)

Pauli Murray, lawyer, educator, minister, and civil rights leader, said her work for the Commission on the Status of Women was a “memorial” to her friend and mentor, Eleanor Roosevelt.
(Frank C. Curtin / AP Images)

Marian Anderson during her concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939.
(Thomas D. McAvoy / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images)

Ella Baker, who the student civil rights activists called “our Gandhi.”
(Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)

Fannie Lou Hamer speaks to supporters of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1965.
(AP Images)

Muddy tracks show the path made through the grass by the car in which Viola Liuzzo and Leroy Moton were traveling when Liuzzo was shot to death by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama.

(Liuzzo and car photographs: © Bettmann / Corbis; Moton photograph: AP Images)

Nothing represented the evolution of beauty standards for black women in the 1960s better than the change in hair styles. Willie Mae Johnson kept to the traditional straightened style when she was crowned Miss Tan America in 1965.
(AP Images)

Angela Davis (right) wore her trademark Afro when she showed up for a court appearance in 1972. “The hair thing made a huge difference,” said Mary Helen Washington, then a Detroit graduate student.
(AP Images)

Members of Women Strike for Peace picket the White House in 1967. “We’d get dressed in mink coats and hats and gloves to look like the woman next door,” said an organizer.
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