The seeds of Womankind
Newspaper were planted in Detroit, Michigan around 1970 by Elizabeth
Michael. She gathered together friends, colleagues and other interested
people — both men and women — to organize a collective
effort promoting awareness and knowledge about the then newly-emerging
women's liberation movement. The energy had begun to simmer and
percolate in the mid-1960s and came to a full, rolling boil by
the end of the '60s and continued into the '70s.
It all seems so basic and primitive now, but at
the time not many people had the courage to write about this subject
matter. And it did take courage, because oppression and persecution
for even bringing these things up in public was commonplace in
the USA.
We hope and pray that the dark age of oppression to women's lives won't ever blacken our progress again.
Ever.
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