Mary O. Eastwood (June 1, 1930 – October 10, 2015) was a pioneering American lawyer and civil rights advocate.
[6] Both conferences were held in Washington, D.C.[6] The 28 women who became founders in June included Mary Eastwood.
They were inspired by the failure of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; at the Third National Conference of State Commissions on the Status of Women they were prohibited from issuing a resolution that recommended the EEOC carry out its legal mandate to end sex discrimination in employment.
[8] Eastwood was part of NOW's first Legal Committee, along with Catherine East, Phineas Indritz, and Caruthers Berger.
[10] Some of Eastwood's papers are held in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.