The rare Arabian Oryx is believed to have inspired the myth of the unicorn. This desert
antelope became virtually extract in the early 1960s. At that time several groups of
international conservationists arranged to have 9 animals sent to the Phoenix Zoo
to be the nucleus of a captive breeding herd. Today the Oryx population
is over 1000 and over 500 have been returned to the Middle East.

© 1996 by Christine A. Lunardini

Published by The Oryx Press

4041 North Central at Indian School Road

Phoenix, Arizona 85012-3397

Cover photograph: A parade in New York City promoting woman suffrage, May 6, 1912.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Illustrations on pages 4, 11, 17, 19, 27, 40, 43, 77, 124, 143, and 156 courtesy of the Library of
Congress; photographs on pages 64, 91, and 104 courtesy of The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe
College; photographs on pages 67 and 174 courtesy of the Photographs and Prints Division,
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and
Tilden Foundations; photograph on page 126, copyright unknown; photograph on page 145 courtesy
of The Hearst Newspaper Collection, Department of Special Collections, University of Southern
California Library; photograph on page 175 courtesy of the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs,
Wayne State University; photograph on page 177 courtesy of the Cherokee Nation;
photo on page 180 courtesy of NASA.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lunardini, Christine A., 1941-

Women's rights/by Christine A. Lunardini.

p. cm. -- (Social Issues in American history series)
Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.
ISBN 0-89774-872-7 (cloth)

1. Women's rights -- United States -- History. 2. Women -- United
States -- History. I. Title. II. Series: Social Issues in American history.

HQ1236.5.U6L85 1995

305.42'0973 -- dc20 95-21712

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