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“I hope we won’t turn our backs on the masses of women in Florida” Dr. Freddie Groomes-McLendon, the Florida Commission on the Status of Women, and the Struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment Get access

Johanna M. Ortner
in Florida Scholarship Online > It's Our Movement Now: Black Women's Politics and the 1977 National Women's Conference
Published: 29 November 2022
... importance of Black women’s organizing, particularly as it relates to Black sororities. It was due to Groomes-McLendon’s membership and her leadership role in Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest black sorority in the country, that she was able to attend the 1977 conference. Henry Diana Mara National Women’s...