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Marion Moos, Activist, Seattle

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Marion Moos

Activist, Spokane

Marion Moos was born in Spokane in 1923. One week after graduating from Washington State University in 1947 she married Eugene Moos, who was part of an Edwall, Washington farm family.

One of Moos' primary causes was Women's Liberation. Moos was a founding member of the Spokane Chapter of the National Organization for Women. She owned and operated the Past-Time Feminist Bookstore. She was also on the organizing committee of the Washington State IWY Conference for Women in Ellensburg in 1977 that developed a timetable for removing state barriers to equality.

Moos remains active in civil rights and social causes in Spokane. In 1975, The Spokesman Review quoted Moos: "What really blows my mind are the men who make the decisions while women do the day-to-day work because as the (men) say, (women) have lots of time."
Seattle General Hospital Nursery.

Three suffragists post signs advocating women's suffrage on the side of a low wood structure in Seattle. Asahel Curtis took this photogrpah for the Washington Equal Suffrage Association.

Ten raspberry pickers, all women, stand in a row at the edge of a raspberry field in Western Washington.

Three American Red Cross women wearing heavy coats and Red Cross caps, offer bottles of milk and doughnuts from baskets to rows of African American soldiers returning to Fort Lewis at the close of World War II. Photo by Turner Richards, Tacoma, WA.