Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 4 P8 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | EASTMAN CRYSTAL 59 and for civil liberties. During her life she worked to improve working conditions for . laborers helped establish the American civil liberties union ACLU and lobbied for the enactment of the equal rights amendment. In many of her exploits she partnered with her younger brother Max. Max Eastman gained fame as a Marxist writer and journalist who later rejected socialism and became a supporter of the virulently anticommunist senator Joseph mccarthy. In contrast crystal Eastman was a consistent supporter of socialist politics the suffragist movement and feminism throughout her life. Eastman was born on June 25 1881 in Glenora New York to samuel Eastman and Annis Ford Eastman. Both her parents were ordained church ministers and ardent believers in women s rights beliefs that Eastman absorbed. In a 1927 autobiographical essay written for Nation magazine Eastman talked about her father s support of her mother s goal of becoming a minister and his support of crystal when she decided to study law. He even supported the rebellious crystal when she led her teenage friends in revolt against the wearing of skirts and stockings as part of the swimming attire of proper young ladies. Her father knew that he would not want to wear a skirt and stockings when he went swimming she wrote so he could see why his daughter would not want to either. Eastman also credited her mother with encouraging crystal and her two brothers to be independent thinkers and to advocate for the causes that were most important to them. Eastman graduated from vassar college in 1903 and earned a master s degree in sociology from Columbia University in 1904. She attended New York city school of Law where she graduated second in her class in 1907. Until 1911 Eastman lived in a Greenwich village commune that included her brother Max. Paul Kellogg social work advocate and editor of a publication called Charities and the Commons hired the young attorney as part of a team charged with .
