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((Short description|American feminist))
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[[File:Photo_of_Molly_Yard.jpg|thumb|right|Molly Yard]]
'''Mary Alexander "Molly" Yard''' (July 6, 1912 &ndash; September 21, 2005) was an [[Americans|American]] [[feminism|feminist]] of the late 20th century and [[social activist]] who served as [[National Organization for Women]] (NOW)'s eighth president from 1987 to 1991 and was a link between [[first-wave feminism|first]] and [[second-wave feminism]].

==Early life==
She was born in [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]] province, [[China]], the daughter of [[Methodism|Methodist]] [[missionary|missionaries]]. She graduated in 1933 from [[Swarthmore College]], a [[coeducation]]al college that was also the [[alma mater]] of [[Alice Paul]]. While at Swarthmore, she led a successful drive to eliminate the systematic [[fraternities and sororities|sorority]] bigotry in place there after a Jewish fellow student had been denied admission to her sorority, [[Kappa Alpha Theta]].  In 1938 she married Sylvester Garrett, a union that lasted until his death in 1996.

==Early career and politics==
She became active in [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] politics, and in the late 1940s and early 1950s worked with the Clark-Dilworth team to unseat the entrenched city machine in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]]. Two years later, she worked in [[Helen Gahagan Douglas]]' unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate against second-year Congressman [[Richard Nixon]]'s effective campaign attacks on Gahagan Douglas in [[California]].

She moved to [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]] in 1953, where she worked in the gubernatorial campaign of Mayor [[David L. Lawrence]] in 1958, led the Western Pennsylvania presidential campaigns of [[John F. Kennedy]] in [[U.S. presidential election, 1960|1960]] and [[George McGovern]] in [[U.S. presidential election, 1972|1972]], led the unsuccessful campaign to get [[NAACP]] President [[Byrd Brown]] the Democratic nomination to Congress, and was co-chair with Mayor [[Joseph M. Barr]] of the unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign of state Senator [[Jeanette Reibman]] in 1976.

She made an unsuccessful run for the state legislature as a candidate from Pittsburgh's Ward 14 in 1964.

In addition to her political work, she helped found [[Americans for Democratic Action]] (ADA), America's oldest independent [[American liberalism|liberal]] lobbying organization, and the Pittsburgh's 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club.  She was also the organization secretary and national chairwoman of the [[American Student Union]].

==Activities in the National Organization for Women==
She became active in NOW while a resident of the [[Squirrel Hill]] neighborhood of Pittsburgh in 1974, and joined the national staff in 1978 during the unsuccessful campaign to ratify the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] (ERA), serving as a lobbyist in [[Washington, D.C.]] She raised more than $1 million in less than six months for that drive.

A prime architect of NOW's political and legislative agenda, she was a senior staff member of the NOW Political Action Committee from 1978 to 1984. As NOW's political director from 1985 to 1987, she was instrumental in the successful 1986 campaign to defeat [[anti-abortion]] referendums in [[Arkansas]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Rhode Island]] and [[Oregon]].

In April 1989, she helped to carry the banner for the March for Women's Equality / Women's Lives, which drew 600,000 marchers to Washington in support of [[abortion]] rights and the ERA.

She defeated [[Noreen Connell]] in the 1987 NOW presidential election. On taking office, she vowed to make the organization more visible and work to defeat [[Ronald Reagan|President Reagan]]'s nomination of Judge [[Robert H. Bork]] to the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]], which was ultimately rejected by the U.S. Senate.

The membership of NOW grew by 110,000 during the years of her presidency and its annual budget increased 70 percent, to more than $10 million.

As NOW president, she opposed U.S. involvement in the [[Gulf War|Persian Gulf War]], saying Americans should not be fighting for "clan-run monarchies" in [[Kuwait]] and [[Saudi Arabia]] that denied women's rights.

Also in 1991, she was honored in Paris by the [[French Alliance of Women for Democratization]] for her pioneering work in reproductive rights; she had been a leader in the effort to get Paris-based manufacturer [[Roussel Uclaf]] to make the so-called "French [[abortion pill]]" (the "[[Emergency contraception|morning-after pill]]", [[Mifepristone|RU-486]]) available in the United States.

She received the [[Feminist Majority Foundation]]'s lifetime achievement award for "''tireless work for women's rights, for women and girls in sports, for the Equal Rights Amendment for Women, for civil rights for all Americans, for her championing of the [[trade union]] movement, and her devotion to [[world peace]] and non-violence.''"

She died peacefully in her sleep at age 93 at a nursing home in suburban Pittsburgh on September 20, 2005.

==References==
* ((cite news
  |first=Sally
  |last=Kalson
  |pages=
  |title=Obituary: Molly Yard: Feminist dies at 93
  |date=September 22, 2005
  |publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05265/575765.stm
))
* ((cite web
  |title=Molly Y Garrett
  |work=Social Security Death Index at Rootsweb.com
  |url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?ssn=195326564
  |accessdate=January 16, 2006
))

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