From breaking new ground in music, art, literature, fashion and medicine, to advancements in working conditions and women's rights, the women of the Lower East Side played an invaluable role in shaping politics and culture in America and around the globe.

The Lower East Side is the birthplace of the Women's Suffrage movement, Planned Parenthood, Visiting Nurse Services, Children's Aid Society, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Catholic Worker, Mother Earth magazine, experimental Off-Broadway theater, and so many more institutions and movements spearheaded by these pioneering women.

The tour is conducted by Andrea Coyle, a native New Yorker, licensed tour guide, and member of The Guides Association of New York City. Andrea is also the Director of Outreach for the East Village History Project, a member of the Municipal Art Society of New York and a volunteer for Big Apple Greeter.

 
Women Movers & Shakers NYC walking tour

Discussed on this tour:
Lillian Wald, Sara Delano Roosevelt, Liz Christy, Kate Millett, Evangeline Cory Booth, Patricia Field, Patti Smith, Dorothy Day, Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman, Debbie Harry, Sally Amato/Amato Opera House, Caroline Astor, Susan B Anthony, Jane Alpert, Marion Nagy, Merchant's House Museum / Eliza Tredwell, Gertrude Tredwell, Billie Holiday, Ellen Stewart, Mother Jones, Hettie Jones, Diane di Prima, Lorraine Hansberry, Dorothy O'Connell Kirwan/McSorley's, Taras Shevchenko, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, The Filmore East, Rev Jacqui Lewis , Abby Gibbons, Women’s Prison Association. Ethel Rosenberg, Madonna, Elizabeth Blackwell, Sara Curry, Joan Blondell, Joan Crawford, Kitty Carlisle, Gloria Swanson, Ruby Keeler, Theater 80, Ladies' Hebrew Lying-In Society, Anna Ottendorfer, Anita Hoffman, Children's Aid Society, Madame Van Buskirk, Juliet Corson, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Eliza Hamilton Holly, Yoko Ono, Victoria Claflin Woodhull, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, ILGWU, Women’s Trade Union League, Clara Lemlich... more!

Forget the dudes...  Even longtime Villagers will learn something new..." - Time Out NY (voted top 5 tours in NYC, Apr 2009)

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