Crystal Eastman

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civil liberties advocate feminist human lawyer pacifist suffragist

Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer, feminist, pacifist, and pioneering civil liberties advocate who played a key role in the early 20th-century progressive and suffrage movements.

Aliases (2)

Crystal Catherine Eastman ×1
Max Eastman ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civil liberties advocate → feminist → human → lawyer → pacifist → suffragist →
causeOfDeath	nephritis →
child	Annis Fuller → Jeffrey Fuller →
coFounded	American Civil Liberties Union → Feminist Alliance → National Woman's Party → The Liberator (magazine) → Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (U.S. section) →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1881-06-25 →
dateOfDeath	1928-07-08 →
educatedAt	Columbia University → New York University School of Law → Vassar College →
familyName	Eastman →
father	Samuel Elijah Eastman →
fullName	Crystal Catherine Eastman →
givenName	Crystal →
knownFor	pioneering civil liberties advocacy in the United States →
mother	Annis Bertha Ford Eastman →
movement	civil liberties movement → peace movement → progressive movement → women's suffrage movement →
notableAchievement	early advocate of birth control and reproductive rights → helped draft New York's first workers' compensation law → prominent advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment →
notableFor	linking feminism, pacifism, and socialism →
notableWork	"Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay) → co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union → report on industrial accidents in New York (1909) →
occupation	activist → journalist → lawyer →
placeOfBirth	Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States →
placeOfDeath	British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, London, England →
politicalIdeology	socialist feminism →
positionHeld	investigator for the New York State Commission on Employers' Liability and Causes of Industrial Accidents →
residence	Greenwich Village, New York City → London, England → New York City →
sibling	Max Eastman →
spouse	Wallace J. Benedict → Walter Fuller →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
American Civil Liberties Union → Feminist Alliance → The Liberator (magazine) →	foundedBy
Feminist Alliance → National Woman's Party →	notableMember
"Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay) →	author
Samuel Elijah Eastman →	child
Annis Fuller →	childOf
Crystal Eastman ("Crystal Catherine Eastman") →	fullName
Feminist Alliance →	hasCoFounder
Feminist Alliance →	hasKeyPerson
Annis Fuller →	hasMother
National Woman's Party →	keyPerson
Crystal Eastman ("Max Eastman") →	sibling