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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"League of Women Voters"”.
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"WE WON'T GIVE UP ON THIS UNTIL WE GET IT": THE WOMEN'S JURY MOVEMENT IN MISSISSIPPI, 1938-1968
<p>After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, many former suffragists and women’s rights activists began statewide campaigns for jury service for women. While the women’s suffrage movement has been studied extensively, the subsequent movement for women’s jury service has largely …
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A "Quiet Activist" During The Second-Wave Feminist Movement: Katharine Rea A Historical Case Study
<p>The purpose of this historical case study dissertation is to discover the story of Dr. Katharine Rea in her role as Dean of Women and later faculty member in the higher education and student personnel program at the University of Mississippi. As the Dean of Women in the 1960s Rea was responsible …
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From Soft-Sell to Hardball: The Evolution of thePro-Equal Rights Amendment Campaign In South Carolina, 1972-1982
… ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) when the women's movement was at its peak in the 1970s and early 1980s. This may not be particularly surprising based on the state's conservative record on women's rights. Historians have not thoroughly studied this state's involvement with the modern …
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Virginia and the Equal Rights Amendment
… but the ERA stalled fifteen states short of the necessary three-fourths to become part of the United States Constitution. Virginia was one of the states who did not ratify the amendment and this study examines the reasons why. Much like other southern states, conservative Virginia …