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Full-Text Articles in History
Whittle, Joseph Merle, B. 1933 (Mss 756), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whittle, Joseph Merle, B. 1933 (Mss 756), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 756. Correspondence and papers of Joseph M. Whittle, a Grayson County attorney who served as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky from 1986-1993.
The Era Of The Era: Defining Liberal And Conservative Equality Through The Fight For The Equal Rights Amendment In New York, Chloe Ross
History
The Equal Rights Amendment was first proposed by suffragist and life-long feminist Alice Paul in 1923 and it intended to create equality of the sexes under the law. It was passed by Congress in 1972, but ultimately was not ratified by enough states. During that time was second-wave feminism, a movement that claimed to seek out equality but had a divisive nature. This thesis looks at how the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment in New York during the 1970s and 80s helped shape the definition of equality for each side of the newly polarized political spectrum. The bulk of …
Why A Woman Was Against Her Own Equality: Understanding Phyllis Schlafly's Opposition To The Equal Rights Amendment, Bailey Iaccarino
Why A Woman Was Against Her Own Equality: Understanding Phyllis Schlafly's Opposition To The Equal Rights Amendment, Bailey Iaccarino
Transformations: Research Papers
This paper analyzes right-wing women’s resistance to the Equal Rights Amendment by using Phyllis Schlafly as a case study. It questions her reasoning, and by extension the anti-ERA women she represents, for opposing an amendment widely understood to make progress toward achieving gender equality. This analysis asserts that Schlafly denounced the amendment because she believed it would attack the rights of housewives, give the federal government excessive power, and hurt women already equal before the law in the ways that mattered. Books and articles about conservative women’s stance against leftist women’s movements and interviews where Schlafly discussed her anti-ERA agenda …
Feminists Ignite Fight For Era (Feminist Newswire 2017), Feminist Newswire Staff
Feminists Ignite Fight For Era (Feminist Newswire 2017), Feminist Newswire Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Writings: Speech On Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Version 1, Edna Louise Saffy
Writings: Speech On Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Version 1, Edna Louise Saffy
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Speeches: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Writings: Speech On Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Version 3, Edna Louise Saffy
Writings: Speech On Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Version 3, Edna Louise Saffy
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Speeches: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
The Spiritual Is Political: The Modern Women's Movement And The Transformation Of The Southern Baptist Convention, Laura Joy Foxworth
The Spiritual Is Political: The Modern Women's Movement And The Transformation Of The Southern Baptist Convention, Laura Joy Foxworth
Theses and Dissertations
"The Spiritual is Political" argues that feminist politics were central to Southern Baptist Convention's notorious schism, which began in 1979, and posits that its new conservative leaders launched the nearly fourteen million member denomination into partisan politics in the 1980s in reaction to their perception that the women's movement was dangerous to the nation's moral and spiritual character. By evaluating both religious and political primary sources from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, I trace grassroots mobilization and denominational reactions to contentious issues like women's ordination, abortion, homosexuality, and the Equal Rights Amendment. Though the Southern Baptist Convention favored moderate …
Baker, Walter Arnold, 1937-2010 (Sc 2716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baker, Walter Arnold, 1937-2010 (Sc 2716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2716. Correspondence of Kentucky State Senator Walter A. Baker with colleagues and constituents about various political issues.
Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 (Mss 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Virginia Wood, 1919-1990 (Mss 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 375. Correspondence, photographs, diaries, and personal and professional writing of Virginia Wood Davis, a Smiths Grove, Kentucky native and a reporter and editor, 1943-1985, for newspapers in Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and McCreary County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data as well as correspondence and miscellaneous papers of her family, especially her mother, Virginia Wood (Cox) Davis.
"Are You Better Off"; Ronald Reagan, Louisiana, And The 1980 Presidential Election, Matthew David Caillet
"Are You Better Off"; Ronald Reagan, Louisiana, And The 1980 Presidential Election, Matthew David Caillet
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis describes how Ronald Reagan succeeded in carrying Louisiana in the 1980 Presidential election. Initially, pundits predicted the election, both statewide and nationwide, would be a “dead heat” between Reagan and President Jimmy Carter. Southern voters supported Carter, despite his many blunders; many American voters wondered if Reagan would be a competent leader. Reagan had a well-organized campaign and spent plenty of time in Louisiana, considered a pivotal “swing state.” His campaign team prepared speeches, explained issues, and received information and support from state Republican leaders, including Governor David Treen and Congressmen Robert Livingston and Henson Moore. Good local …
A New E.R.A. Or A New Era? Amendment Advocacy And The Reconstitution Of Feminism, Serena Mayeri
A New E.R.A. Or A New Era? Amendment Advocacy And The Reconstitution Of Feminism, Serena Mayeri
All Faculty Scholarship
Scholars have largely treated the reintroduction of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) after its ratification failure in 1982 as a mere postscript to a long, hard-fought, and ultimately unsuccessful campaign to enshrine women’s legal equality in the federal constitution. This Article argues that “ERA II” was instead an important turning point in the history of legal feminism and of constitutional amendment advocacy. Whereas ERA I had once attracted broad bipartisan support, ERA II was a partisan political weapon exploited by advocates at both ends of the ideological spectrum. But ERA II also became a vehicle for feminist reinvention. Congressional consideration …
Writings: Speech Delivered During Women's History Month ... March 11, 2008, Edna Louise Saffy
Writings: Speech Delivered During Women's History Month ... March 11, 2008, Edna Louise Saffy
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Speeches: Speech delivered during women's history month at the Jacksonville Women's Center on March 11, 2008 Edna Saffy.
Maine Now Times (Fall 2007), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Fall 2007), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Now Times (Spring 2007), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Spring 2007), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Stop Taking Our Privileges! The Anti-Era Movement In Georgia, 1978-1982, Kristina Marie Graves
Stop Taking Our Privileges! The Anti-Era Movement In Georgia, 1978-1982, Kristina Marie Graves
History Theses
Graves discusses the important role that women played in the anti-ERA campaign in Georgia during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a controversial and divisive piece of legislation that polarized both legislators and constituents throughout the United States. Graves uses the anti-ERA campaign in Georgia as a model for studying the women who opposed the ERA on a national level. She writes about the differences between the feminist movement and the conservative grassroots movement, the role that anti-ERA women played in the rise of the New Right, and the legacy of the ERA’s failure …
Searching For Sisterhood: Black Women, Race And The Georgia Era, Jennifer Powell Gonzalez
Searching For Sisterhood: Black Women, Race And The Georgia Era, Jennifer Powell Gonzalez
History Theses
This Thesis is a local study employing new definitions of political activism and using oral histories, personal records and organizational archived material to debunk the myth that the feminist struggle surrounding the Equal Rights Amendment was separate from issues of race. Black women were involved in the fight for the ERA although not necessarily in the ways that White men and women might expect. Additionally, even when not obviously present, proponents and opponents of the ERA argued over the idea of Black women and race. Concern about Black women, overt racism and coded race language were all a part of …
Maine Now Times (Spring 2005), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Spring 2005), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Now Times (Spring 2001), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Spring 2001), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Writings: Program Presented In Balis Park, San Marco, Jacksonville Florida In Celebration Of Women, Edna Louise Saffy
Writings: Program Presented In Balis Park, San Marco, Jacksonville Florida In Celebration Of Women, Edna Louise Saffy
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Speeches: Program Presented in Balis Park, San Marco, Jacksonville Florida, in celebration of women on August 26, 2000 by Edna Saffy.
Writings: Program Presented In Balis Park, San Marco, Jacksonville Florida In Celebration Of Women, Edna Louise Saffy
Writings: Program Presented In Balis Park, San Marco, Jacksonville Florida In Celebration Of Women, Edna Louise Saffy
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Speeches: Program Presented in Balis Park, San Marco, Jacksonville Florida, in celebration of women on August 26, 2000 by Edna Saffy.
Flyer: Commemorate The Women's Movement In Jacksonville, Edna Louise Saffy
Flyer: Commemorate The Women's Movement In Jacksonville, Edna Louise Saffy
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Flyer for Women’s Equality Day program Balis Park in San Marco, Jacksonville, Florida August 26, 2000.
Program: A Commemoration Of Women's History Program August 26, 2000, Edna Louise Saffy
Program: A Commemoration Of Women's History Program August 26, 2000, Edna Louise Saffy
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Women's Equality Day Eighty Years of Women's Suffrage Thirty Years of Jacksonville Women's Movement August 26, 2000 9 A.M. Includes program, and Procession of Honor to Mary Nolan’s grave. Program Committee: Karen Danko, Cathy Drompp, Pam Flynn, Sharon Laird, Edna Saffy, Judy Sheklin, Elizabeth Teague and Louise Stanton Warren.
Writings: Program Presented In Balis Park, San Marco, Jacksonville Florida. In Celebration Of Women On August 26, 2000, Edna Louise Saffy
Writings: Program Presented In Balis Park, San Marco, Jacksonville Florida. In Celebration Of Women On August 26, 2000, Edna Louise Saffy
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Speeches: Version of the program delivered on August 26, 2000 by Dr. Edna L. Saffy commemorating Women’s Equality Day, eighty years of woman’s suffrage and thirty years of the Jacksonville Women’s Movement.
Maine Now Times (Fall 1999), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Fall 1999), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Now Times (Summer 1999), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Summer 1999), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Now Times (Winter 1999), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Winter 1999), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Now Times (May 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (May 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Now Times (Spring 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Spring 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Now Times (Winter 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Winter 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Now Times (Fall 1997), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Fall 1997), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.