the women's movement, arising at the intersection between protests against sexism in jobs and feminist opposition to violence against women. The problem of sexual harassment placed together complaints about women in the workforce with opposition to male sexual violence. Two groups founded in the mid-1970's to concentrate specifically on sexual harassment — Working Women United in Ithaca, New York, and the Cambridge, Massachusetts Alliance Against Sexual Coercion. On a Sunday afternoon, 4 May 1975, 275 women gathered at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center for the country's initial "Speak Out" testifying about personal experiences of sexual harassment. Working Women United (WWU), as well as the Human Affairs Program at Cornell University and the National Organization for Women's Chapter in Ithaca. This campaign developed out of the wider women's movement, which provided the leaders of the fight against sexual assault with an institutional foundation, contact networks, policies, and philosophy. Human Affairs Program (HAP) The Human Affairs Program (HAP) was a program at Cornell University that offered academic courses and community organizing with theoretical and practical instructions in social, political, educational, and economic concerns. Originally this included prison reform, urban redevelopment, and money and banking. Susan Meyer and Karen Sauvigné were activists who offered support to Carmita Wood. They were part of the Humans Affair Program (HAP) at Cornell . In 1974, a women's section in HAP was formed in which Lin Farley, a long time activist, was the director of HAP. When Meyer, Sauvigné and Farley began talking to Wood, they discovered that women everywhere experienced a situation similar to Wood's where they got fired or quit due to not going along with unwanted sexual advances. The women began to take action as they found attorneys for Wood and argued that Title VII should include protecting women from sex-based intimidation in the work force. The women appealed Woods unemployment claim which they lost. Farley testified in 1975 for New York City Human Rights Commission Hearings on Women and Work to define sexual harassment. Farley's message became nationally known shortly and sexual harassment became well known around the world. By looking to support working women, these women from HAP created a working women's organization known as Working Women United (WWU). Speak Out The first protest occurred on May 4, 1975 as a "Speak Out" where women gave testimony of personal experiences of sexual harassment at work. The women speaking out broke the silence