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The Civil Rights Act of 1964: How Far Have We Come?

Women of the Century: 1960s

Memphis Inspiring Women of the 1960s

Maxine Smith and Miriam DeCosta Willis 

Maxine Smith

Miriam Decosta Willis

Althea Price

Cornelia Crenshaw

Daisy Bates

Lucie Campbell

Griswold v. Connecticut: Landmark Civil Rights Case of the 60s Affecting Women's Rights

Below left, Estelle Griswold, medical adviser and executive director of the Planned Parenthood clinic in New Haven, Conn., and Cornelia Jahncke, at right, president of ­the Planned Parenthood League of ­Connecticut, celebrating ­victory in the 1965 case on access to birth control.

         
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