Karen DeCrow, former NOW president, honored by Rep. Dan Maffei in House speech (video)

Mark Weiner | mweiner@syracuse.com

WASHINGTON. D.C. -- U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei delivered a speech on the House floor Tuesday honoring the life of Karen DeCrow, a national women's rights leader from Syracuse who died Friday in Jamesville.

DeCrow, 76, was "a trailblazer who fought tirelessly for women's equality and justice for all," Maffei told his House colleagues during a one-minute speech about the former president of the National Organization for Women, and a 2009 inductee into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

"Among her many accomplishments, Karen was a civil rights lawyer, a columnist for the Syracuse Post-Standard, and president of the National Organization for Women, also known as NOW," Maffei said in his speech. "She was the first woman to run for mayor in a major city in New York, and was the only woman in her graduating class at Syracuse University School of Law."

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