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  2. LGBT culture in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    GALAEI fights for access, opportunity, sexual empowerment, and economic justice while fighting systemic oppression, structural racism, discrimination, and white supremacy. Mazzoni Center. The Mazzoni Center, established in 1979, is the only healthcare provider in Philadelphia that operates specifically for the LGBT community. The center's array ...

  3. Women in the United States Prohibition movement - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized on November 18, 1874, in Cleveland, Ohio. [3] It quickly became the largest women's organization in the United States. The women in the movement were inspired by the serious drinking problem in the United States and the disproportionate ills that befell women whose husbands were drunkards.

  4. Judith Palmer - Wikipedia

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    Anna Crusis Women's Choir. Judith is a founding member of Anna Crusis Women's Choir. Since 1975, she has sung in the first soprano section and has served as choir arranger and composer, particularly of four- and five- part acappella pieces written for small ensembles. ANNA’s mission to foster social change and advance the empowerment of women ...

  5. Gender inequality in Bolivia - Wikipedia

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    A 2001 report by the National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia reported that Bolivian women are more illiterate than men, with rates being 19.35 percent versus 6.94 percent, respectively. Women living in rural areas have even higher rates of illiteracy, at 37.91 percent versus men at 14.42 percent. [3]

  6. Feminist movement - Wikipedia

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    The feminist movement, also known as the women's movement, refers to a series of social movements and political campaigns for radical and liberal reforms on women's issues created by the inequality between men and women. [1] Such issues are women's liberation, reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage ...

  7. Women in classical music - Wikipedia

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    Women are active in all aspects of classical music, such as instrumental performance, vocal performance, orchestral conducting, choral conducting, scholarly research, and contemporary composition. However, proportionately to men, their representation and recognition -especially at higher levels- falls a long way below their numbers.

  8. Black Methodism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Empowerment Temple AME Church, Carey Street, Monrovia; Morning Star AME, Kingsville #7 Township, Careysburg District, Montserrado County. See also. List of Methodist churches; List of Methodist churches in the United States, which covers all or many of the U.S. ones above, amidst other Methodist churches, and is organized by state

  9. Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society ( PFASS) was founded in December 1833, a few days after the first meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society (in Philadelphia), and dissolved in March 1870 following the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It was founded by eighteen women, including Lucretia Mott ...