Eastman, Crystal
Eastman, Crystal (1881–1928), labor lawyer, feminist, antimilitarist.Born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the daughter of two ordained Congregationalist ministers, Eastman was raised in Glenora, New York, graduated from Vassar College, earned an M.A. in sociology at Columbia and a law degree from New York University in 1907. A labor lawyer and reformer, Eastman's first book, Work Accidents and the Law (1910), established her reputation and helped create workmen's compensation. A brilliant and dynamic activist, Eastman was a committed socialist, suffragist, feminist, and antimilitarist. She believed military establishments and wars defended business interests and threatened the values she most cherished. In 1914, she was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party (later the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom) and became president of the radical New York...
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