Molly Yard—activist
Birth
Molly Yard (born 1912) is a Chinese-born U.S. administrator and feminist, serving as National Organization for Women President from 1987 to 1991.
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Work
Molly Yard was elected President of NOW together with her whole team of Sheri O'Dell, Action Vice President, Patricia Ireland, Executive Vice President, and Kim Gandy, Secretary, by substantial margins.
http://feminist.org/research/chronicles/fc1987.html
Former NOW president, activist Molly Yard dies at 93 Molly Yard, the longtime liberal activist who led the National Organization for Women during the fight over the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, has died. She was 93.
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1987 Jul 18, Molly Yard was elected the new president of the National Organization for Women, succeeding Eleanor Smeal.
http://eleggua.com/History/1987B.html
Molly Yard, 93: A Feminist and a Mensch Molly Yard is probably best known for serving as the president of the National Organization for Women from 1987 to 1991. She was 93 at the time of her death on Sept. 21 at a nursing home in Pittsburgh. Her parents were Methodist missionaries and her first venture into social activism was to help her Jewish classmates at Swarthmore College, from which she graduated in 1933 with a bachelors degree in political science. In a brief reference to her Swarthmore years, The New York Times obituary reported that when she joined a sorority at Swarthmore she was aghast to learn that Jewish women were barred from membership. She then campaigned, successfully, to eliminate all sororities on campus.
http://www.pjvoice.com/v5/5320cohen.html
Molly Yard, for more than half a century an outspoken advocate for liberal causes, who came to national prominence as president of the National Organization for Women in the late 1980's, died yesterday at a nursing home in Pittsburgh. She was 93 and had resided most recently in Arlington, Va., and Washington. Ms. Yard's son James Garrett confirmed her death. Active since the 1930's in student and civil rights movements, Ms. Yard served as NOW's president from 1987 until 1991.
http://demott.usablenet.com/tt/www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/national/22y...
Molly Yard, US liberal activist, 93 ... She was 93. Yard died Wednesday in the Fair Oaks Nursing Home in Pittsburgh, said her son, James Garrett, an assistant U.S. attorney. Yard was elected president of NOW in 1987 after working for nearly a decade on its national staff. She stepped down in late 1991, after suffering a stroke earlier that year. She made NOW more visible and worked against Bork, whom she said might provide a fifth vote to override the high court's 1973 ruling legalizing abortion.
http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg01859.html
Feminists (including Eleanor Smeal, Molly Yard, Patricia Ireland, Sheri O'Dell, Jeanne K.C. Clark and Frances Kissling) were arrested at a demonstration at the Vatican Embassy, Washington, DC - proclaiming "women's right's are human rights."
http://feminist.org/research/chronicles/fc1987.html
