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Analysis Of Three Works For Solo Flute : Partita In A Minor By J.S. Bach, Fantasie In A Minor By G.P. Telemann, And Sonata In A Minor By C.P.E. Bach, Nellie J. Laberge

Music Theses

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Georgia And The Equal Rights Amendment, Jeffrey Gordon Jones

History Theses

Introduction:

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), after a ten-year struggle, went down to defeat in 1982. ERA fell just three states short of the thirty-eight needed for ratification, and the fifteen nonratifying states contained a distinctive southern bloc (see Figure 1). Georgia, like its neighbors, proved inhospitable to ERA proponents.

ERA's failure has been explained in various ways. In 1979, three years before ultimate ERA defeat, Janet K. Boles published The Politics of the Equal Rights Amendment. Boles writes about the ERA debate in the states of Georgia, Illinois, and Texas in her examination of political conflict. In her study, …