Many of the founders and leaders (including both well-known and grassroots organizers) of the second wave women's movement are collected in this publication. It tells the stories of more than two thousand individual women and a few men who together reignited the women’s movement and made permanent changes to entrenched customs and laws. The biographical entries on these pioneering feminists represent their many factions, all parts of the country, all races and ethnic groups, and all political ideologies. The author's foreword discusses the movement in relation to the earlier first wave and presents a brief overview of the second wave in the context of other contemporaneous social movements.