Teresa Shook, a lawyer and educator who founded the Women's March movement, accused the group's current co-chairs -- Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez -- of associating with bigoted outside groups and tarnishing the Women's March's initial goals in a post on her Facebook page Monday.
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Feb 22, 2017 · But before the pink pussy hats and the think pieces about said hats, it was an idea. Teresa Shook’s idea. Teresa, a retired attorney from a small town in Hawaii, created a “March on Washington” Facebook event the night after the 2016 election. She sent it to some friends, went to bed and woke up to more than 20,000 people interested in attending.
Nov 20, 2018 · Shook is credited with being the first woman to call for a women’s march after Trump was elected in November 2016. The marches drew hundreds of thousands in cities across the US on the day after...
Nov 20, 2018 · Teresa Shook, the lawyer and educator who founded the Women’s March, called on these co-organizers to resign. She wrote they have …
Mar 07, 2019 · Spokane was part of the nationwide protests inspired by Teresa Shook in 2017. The Washington Post has called her "the woman who started the Women's March with a Facebook post," yet nearly three...
National Mall photographs and other data suggest that around 470,000 people participated in the Jan. 21, 2017, Women's March on Washington, as it has come to be known, the largest protest since the Vietnam War. Millions more Americans marched in cities and towns nationwide that day.
Shook was at home in Hawaii, six hours behind Washington, D.C., when the 2016 presidential election results came in. While much of the country slept, Shook ruminated on the results, which for many was a gut punch.