"Don't iron while the strike is hot!"

That was the slogan of the Women's Strike for Equality, a nationwide women's liberation demonstration that took place on August 26, 1970, the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the women's suffrage amendment.

Timed to coincide with the evening rush hour in New York City; some 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue.

It would be a few more years before the women who marched that day were