Interview by Nancy Rosenstock The Women’s Strike for Equality in August 1970 was a landmark in the development of second-wave feminism. On August 26, fifty thousand women marched down New York City’s Fifth Avenue, defying the efforts of the police to confine them to the sidewalk as they mounted the largest feminist demonstration that the United States had seen. The protest in New York was flanked by actions in ninety US cities, coming fifty years to the day after women had won the right to vote.
