Crystal Eastman

Crystal Eastman was an attorney and activist who co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920, helped found the National Woman’s Party, and co-wrote the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923. In 1925, she was on the editorial board of Time & Tide, a British monthly launched as a feminist magazine in 1920. She was the sister of Max Eastman; she co-owned The Liberator with him from 1918 to 1924.

Crystal Eastman in The Suffragist (1915)

Eastman, Art Young, Max Eastman, Morris Hillquit, Merril Rogers, and Floyd Dell at New York courthouse in 1918 charged with interfering with “conspiracy to obstruct recruiting and enlistment.”

Eastman outside the National Woman’s Party headquarters in Washington DC

Ad for Time & Tide in the September 1925 issue of The Woman Engineer