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Cover of a magazine with women holding signs at a protest with defiant gazes.
Cover of Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation released by New York Radical Women. (Photo: Duke University Libraries and Rubenstein Library).

New York Radical Women begins the first consciousness-raising groups.

Date: 1967

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Cover of Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation released by New York Radical Women. (Photo: Duke University Libraries and Rubenstein Library).

The organization focuses on supporting peer groups of women to come together and talk about sexual violence, child abuse, and other issues impacting women. By the 1970s, there will be over 100,000 women participating in groups around the country.