The first sorority to demand equal rights

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Originally Posted by AOII Angel

While stronger activism got women the right to vote, it did not automatically give us the respect of men as peers. Education, however, has proven to men that women are equal to them academically. NPC organizations were founded by women bent on getting an education. Many were in teacher's colleges because this was the only "appropriate" profession for women at the time. Later founders were the first to break into the male only facilities of higher education. They founded our groups to empower the women looking for equality to stand up for themselves against the all male faculty who often were not receptive to their appearance on the scene. Just because as groups we worked at the level of the individual woman does not mean that we were not activists in the equality movement. Marching and signing up for initiatives doesn't do the enitre job and you know it. There are many people in the women's rights and civil rights movements that worked for equality at home on the local level without marching in washington (for civil rights) or boycotting the White House (for women's rights.)

(I missed this part of your post completely)

This is definitely worth discussing and thank YOU for highlighting this. Breaking the male hold on education was definitely important and that's different than saying "we thought education was important."

Marching and signing doesn't do the whole job but someone has to do it. Usually it's a result of multitasking and working on national and local initiatives as I said earlier.

So was your documented agenda that of the individual woman during these social movements? I'm not talking about opinion, I'm asking for what you all did as a whole. An interesting thing about social movements is that there is often a division of labor. But NPC sororities focused on what they saw as important. Focusing on educating the individual women and challenging faculty and administration on college campuses. I guess NPC organizations weren't involved at the organizational-level beyond that emphasis on the individual woman. Is that correct based on you all's records? If that's what you all are going on the record as claiming, I respect that.