Anne Pride (July 29, 1942 – April 24, 1990) was a

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(NOW) activist and publisher. Pride, an activist against

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, began using the term " Take Back the Night" in 1977. Pride helped found one of the first rape crisis centers in the United States and was involved in protecting the privacy of her clients.

Career

Pride started getting involved in

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in 1968. She joined the National Organization of Women (NOW) in 1969. She served as editor of ''Do It NOW'', NOW's national newsletter from 1970 to 1976. From 1975 to 1977, she was on the board of directors for NOW. As a NOW activist, in 1977 she used the term "Take Back the Night" in a memorial she read at an anti-violence rally in

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. Pride was a founder of KNOW, Inc., which worked to publish

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viewpoints. In 1977, Pride became an associate of the

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(WIFP). Pride helped create one of the world's first

rape crisis center A rape crisis centre, also known as a sexual assault crisis centre or sexual assault referral centre (SARC), is a specialised centre to support victims of rape or other sexual assault, both in the immediate aftermath of the assault and in the ...

s, the Pittsburgh Action Against Rape (PAAR) in 1974. She later became part of PAAR staff, starting in 1976. In the 1980s, she was the director of PAAR. In 1980, Pride refused to give client interview notes to the defense attorney during a

trial, citing confidentiality concerns. She was found in

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and the

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was upheld by the

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. The court case led to the creation of legislation in

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which would ensure confidentiality for rape victims and counselors at crisis centers.

Personal life

Pride was born as Anne Hugget on July 29, 1942. She married Edwin Kurlfink at the age of 16, but even before her separation and divorce, wanted to change her name back to Huggett, her family name. However, Pride's father didn't want his name to be associated with the women's movement. Upon her separation from Edwin in 1977, she changed her name to Pride. She and her husband had two children. and Pride was diagnosed with

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in 1989. She died on April 24, 1990, at

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after fighting cancer.

Footnotes

References

1942 births 1990 deaths American feminists Activists from Pittsburgh

External links

Anne Pride, Papers of NOW Officers.
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles Schlesinger Library] {{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509153246/http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/ , date=May 9, 2012 , Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.