W.I.T.C.H. - 1969

Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell

Miranda mentioned this group a few weeks ago and I just realized that I had these photos.
They were taken by Lee Balterman for LIFE magazine at a protest in support of the Chicago Eight.
Photos of a different W.I.T.C.H. protest (they called them hexes) are available at Jo Freeman's site, a really great resource for first-hand information about social movements of the sixties and seventies.

Freeman says:

The following Halloween (1969) the target was the trial of New Left leaders, arrested for conspiracy after protests disrupted the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Slowly, solemnly, the Witches filed around the Federal Building in Chicago's Loop, faces painted white, staring straight ahead, flowing black capes swirling around them. "Our sister justice lies chained and tied," they chanted. "We curse the ground on which she died."

Deeds Not Words - Part 2

Swatches for Suffrage Banner Design

"The items in the collection were mostly designed and created by two artist-based suffrage organizations in Britain: the Artist’s Suffrage League and the Suffrage Atelier, both connected to women’s suffrage organizations in that country."

from: here

Deeds Not Words

Women's Suffrage Banners from the UK
from: here

Berlin 1961 - Part 3

Paul Schutzer
source:life

Kay Tobin Lahusen

Various events in various cities.
Kay Lahusen - 1971

"Kay Lahusen (b. January 5, 1930 also known as Kay Tobin) is considered the first openly gay photojournalist of the gay rights movement."

In 2007, Lahusen and her partner, Barbara Gittings, donated their papers to the NYPL.

Richard C. Wandel

Photos of various events and protests by Richard C. Wandel.
Mostly centered around the Gay Activists Alliance.
New York City and Suffolk County
1970-1971

International Gay Information Center Collection at the NYPL