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Leaflet: 8-1/2 x 7", 4pp; printed blue on off-white stock. Fine. The leaflet addresses commonly raised questions and issues regarding the Equal Rights Amendment: What is ERA?; What will ERA do?; How will the ERA become law?; Why do we need ERA?; What do national letters say about ERA?; ERA will equalize Social Security benefits; ERA will not interfere with an individual’s privacy; Will women be drafted under ERA?; ERA will remove discriminatory labor laws; ERA will not do away with laws against rape; How will ERA affect states' rights?; What happens to women's rights in marriage and divorce under ERA?; and Who supports ERA? The leaflet offers a succinct overview of the Amendment and addresses myths offered by its opponents. It points out, for instance, as far as women and the draft: "With a volunteer army about to go into effect, it's a dead issue for now". Likewise, it reassures those concerned about the impact of the ERA on states' rights that it "does not take away states' rights", and compares the language of the amendment with the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, and 26th amendments. The leaflet lists numerous organizations which support the ERA, largely women's or labor organizations. The national leaders they cite as pro-ERA are surprisingly few, just five, two of whom are Senator Strom Thurmond and Governor George Wallace. Not in OCLC. ERA literature, in general, is surprisingly uncommon.
Leaflet: THE ERA What It Means to Men and Women
[ERA], [League of Women Voters].
(Washington, D.C.): League of Women Voters of the United States, (ca. 1973).
Price: $75.00
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Only edition. 4to: 10-7/8 x 8-1/2", 308pp; (including endmatter); white wrappers (perfectbound) with color photographs at the front and rear covers. Mild touches of use (slight crinkle to upper right foretip, front cover; mid scrape, front cover). Very good. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Much of the text was written by Sarah Bird ("Chief Writer"). Bella Abzug headed up the Commission and she proved a sufficiently difficult a figure for President Jimmy Carter that he sought to unseat her (unsuccessfully). The Houston conference, the first of its kind, brought together a formidable array of women: Betty Ford; Coretta Scott King; Margaret Mead; Ann Richards; Eleanor Smeal; Jean Stapleton; and Gloria Steinem, to name a few. The report prints: National Plan of Action (from "Declaration of American Women” to “Committee of the Conference"); State Meetings; State Meetings Chart; State Resolutions; Houston Day by Day; Song, "We Shall Go Forth"; Epilogue; Convention Center: Something for Every Woman; International Perspectives; The Torch Relay; [Poem] "...To Form a More Perfect Union...", Maya Angelou; Billie Jean King Statement; What the Press Said; Rediscovering American Women, A Chronology; What They Said: excerpts from major speeches; and, National Commissioners Biographies. It is, as it sets out to be, a thorough and often riveting account of this singular conference.
THE SPIRIT OF HOUSTON An Official Report to the President, the Congress and the People of the United States
[Women’s/ERA], National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year.
Washington, DC: National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year; for sale by the Superintendent of Doc
Price: $30.00
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