...This chapter shows how Marlo Thomas was involved in the burgeoning women's movement both before and after she decided to create a new kind of children's entertainment. Thomas was fully supportive of the Equal Rights Amendment and other liberal feminist goals. When she began to work...

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... the South on the basis of equal rights and democracy in a truer sense of the word than its inhabitants had ever known, then we cannot help calling Reconstruction at best a failure—though that failure seemed less clear, unambiguous, and complete in 1877 than in retrospect. But if we see Reconstruction's...

..., the legal and political systems embraced the principles of racial equality and gender equality, even though the Equal Rights Amendment had failed to win ratification by enough states to become part of the U.S. Constitution. White southerners continued their political drift toward the increasingly...

... intervention when it comes to obtaining equal rights. In slave communities, for instance, religious gatherings sometimes became sites for plotting rebellions. And “stealing away” was code for heading North rather than going to heaven. As an institution, the black church historically has been the cornerstone...

...This chapter examines how the most prominent advocates for equal adulthood split into rival camps, even if they agreed that black men and all women still shared a common problem—the vulnerability to being treated like perpetual minors. It cites the case of the American Equal Rights Association...

... Swift, she tried to rejoin and so desegregate the local affiliate. It took years for the case she and Nettie were making for equality and integration to make its way through the court system as well as into the AAUW’s national constitution. Terrell’s congressional testimony in favor of the Equal Rights...

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... exclusively on the Equal Rights and Equal Nationality treaties. Spanish-speaking feminists in turn forged stronger bonds with each other and promoted their own feminismo prࢴico, defined by solidarity around local struggles, anti-imperialism, and promotion of women’s social and economic rights. Dom쭧uez became...

... Stevens in the Inter-American Commission of Women avoided promoting women’s “equal rights” because of the fraught Equal Rights Amendment debate in the U.S. Latin American feminists effectively pushed these U.S. counterparts on a number of issues, including toward advocacy for maternity legislation, which...

...-loving raconteur landed in Charlotte, North Carolina, and founded the Carolina Israelite newspaper, which was published into the 1960s. Golden’s writings on race relations and equal rights attracted a huge popular readership. Golden used his celebrity to editorialize for civil rights as the momentous...

... climate justice to its priority themes, based on its impact on women. Demanding equal rights in a world that is structured to perpetuate violence, poverty, and insecurity is neither effective nor desirable. We cannot only seek the same rights as the other half of the population. Women must create...

... and boycotts to achieve equal rights. Like Rosa Parks, Mollie Church Terrell cannot be understood and appreciated for just one moment or action in her life. Instead, she must be appreciated for her resiliency and persistency--her unceasing militancy--over many long decades. Born on the cusp of slavery...

... a hearing at the conference plenary. At a time when U.S. marines were dive-bombing Nicaragua, feminists’ calls for national sovereignty and women’s sovereignty in an Equal Rights Treaty gained the favor of many Latin American statesmen in Havana. Although the treaty did not pass, their efforts resulted...

.... Women’s and Children’s Bureaus in the new administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, including Sophonisba Breckinridge, who also opposed Stevens’s leadership of the Commission. The conflict between Stevens’s “equal rights” feminism, focused on political and civil rights, versus an inter-American...

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...This chapter shows how the second wave feminist movement and momentum from the Equal Rights Amendment led to major military changes for servicewomen beginning in the 1970s. The definition of equality broadened and became based on gender sameness rather than gender difference and cultural...

...This chapter explores how Mormons engaged with the politicization of gender roles in its anti-feminist crusade against the Equal Rights Amendment and its anti-homosexuality efforts in sodomy laws. Church leaders joined with an emergent Religious Right that was reshaping American politics...

...This chapter explores how liberal scholars and policymakers, most of whom were the children of European immigrants, invoked a conception of “equal rights” derived from the black freedom movement to influence the 1965 reform of immigration law. It explains how this ideological framework...

...This chapter focuses on Justice Sharp's opposition to the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution in North Carolina—her most famous, least understood, and most resented interference in matters of public policy. Judge Sharp's opposition, largely due to the critical...