Her oldest brother, Morgan, was born in 1878 and died in 1884.
The second brother, Anstice Ford Eastman, who became a general surgeon, was born in 1878 and died in 1937.
Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25, 1881 – July 8, 1928) was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist.
In 2000 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. ==Early life and education== Crystal Eastman was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, on June 25, 1881, the third of four children.
Max was the youngest, born in 1882. In 1883 their parents, Samuel Elijah Eastman and Annis Bertha Ford, moved the family to Canandaigua, New York.
Max was the youngest, born in 1882. In 1883 their parents, Samuel Elijah Eastman and Annis Bertha Ford, moved the family to Canandaigua, New York.
Her oldest brother, Morgan, was born in 1878 and died in 1884.
In 1889, their mother became one of the first women ordained as a Protestant minister in America when she became a minister of the Congregational church.
The group, including Ida Rauh, Inez Milholland, Floyd Dell, and Doris Stevens, also spent summers and weekends in Croton-on-Hudson. Eastman graduated from Vassar College in 1903 and received an MA in sociology (then a relatively new field) from Columbia University in 1904.
The group, including Ida Rauh, Inez Milholland, Floyd Dell, and Doris Stevens, also spent summers and weekends in Croton-on-Hudson. Eastman graduated from Vassar College in 1903 and received an MA in sociology (then a relatively new field) from Columbia University in 1904.
Gaining her law degree from New York University Law School, she graduated second in the class of 1907. ==Social efforts== Social work pioneer and journal editor Paul Kellogg offered Eastman her first job, investigating labor conditions for The Pittsburgh Survey sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation.
Newark: Rutgers University Press, 1993. Sochen, June, The New Woman in Greenwich Village, 1910–1920.
There she managed the unsuccessful 1912 Wisconsin suffrage campaign. When she returned east in 1913, she joined Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and others in founding the militant Congressional Union, which became the National Woman's Party.
There she managed the unsuccessful 1912 Wisconsin suffrage campaign. When she returned east in 1913, she joined Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and others in founding the militant Congressional Union, which became the National Woman's Party.
Eastman is credited as a founding member of the ACLU, but her role as founder of the NCLB may have been largely ignored by posterity due to her personal differences with Baldwin. ==Marriage and family== In 1916 Eastman married the British editor and antiwar activist Walter Fuller, who had come to the United States to direct his sisters’ singing of folksongs.
He died in 1927, nine months before Crystal, ending his career editing Radio Times for the BBC. After Max Eastman's periodical The Masses was forced to close by government censorship in 1917, he and Crystal co-founded a radical journal of politics, art, and literature, The Liberator, early in 1918.
He died in 1927, nine months before Crystal, ending his career editing Radio Times for the BBC. After Max Eastman's periodical The Masses was forced to close by government censorship in 1917, he and Crystal co-founded a radical journal of politics, art, and literature, The Liberator, early in 1918.
She and Max co-edited it until they put it in the hands of faithful friends in 1922. ===Post-War=== After the war, Eastman organized the First Feminist Congress in 1919. At times she traveled by ship to London to be with her husband.
In New York, her activities led to her being blacklisted during the Red Scare of 1919–1920.
She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, as a co-founder and co-editor with her brother Max Eastman of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and co-founder in 1920 of the American Civil Liberties Union.
After the passage of the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920, Eastman and Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment, first introduced in 1923.
Her only paid work during the 1920s was as a columnist for feminist journals, notably Equal Rights and Time and Tide. Eastman claimed that "life was a big battle for the complete feminist," but she was convinced that the complete feminist would someday achieve total victory. ===Death=== Crystal Eastman died on July 8, 1928, of nephritis.
Renamed the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1921, it remains the oldest extant women's peace organization.
They worked together as activists until the end of the war; then he worked as the managing editor of The Freeman until 1922 when he returned to England.
She and Max co-edited it until they put it in the hands of faithful friends in 1922. ===Post-War=== After the war, Eastman organized the First Feminist Congress in 1919. At times she traveled by ship to London to be with her husband.
After the passage of the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920, Eastman and Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment, first introduced in 1923.
He died in 1927, nine months before Crystal, ending his career editing Radio Times for the BBC. After Max Eastman's periodical The Masses was forced to close by government censorship in 1917, he and Crystal co-founded a radical journal of politics, art, and literature, The Liberator, early in 1918.
Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25, 1881 – July 8, 1928) was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist.
Her only paid work during the 1920s was as a columnist for feminist journals, notably Equal Rights and Time and Tide. Eastman claimed that "life was a big battle for the complete feminist," but she was convinced that the complete feminist would someday achieve total victory. ===Death=== Crystal Eastman died on July 8, 1928, of nephritis.
The second brother, Anstice Ford Eastman, who became a general surgeon, was born in 1878 and died in 1937.
New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972. Read J., Phyllis; Witlieb L., Bernard: The Book of Women's Firsts.
Newark: Rutgers University Press, 1993. Sochen, June, The New Woman in Greenwich Village, 1910–1920.
In 2000 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. ==Early life and education== Crystal Eastman was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, on June 25, 1881, the third of four children.
Commission on Industrial Relations 19th Amendment Equal Rights Amendment The Liberator ==Footnotes== ==Further reading== Amy Aronson, Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life, Oxford University Press, 2019. Blanche Wiesen Cook, ed., Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution.
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