Letter : Mohegan Lake, New York, to Margery C. Leonard, Brighton, Massachusetts, 1975 August 8.

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Letter : Mohegan Lake, New York, to Margery C. Leonard, Brighton, Massachusetts, 1975 August 8.

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Laid-in item removed from her book, The Ladies of Seneca Falls, and filed separately. Concerning her Ladies of Seneca Falls. Refers to Ms. Leonard's testimony before the House and Senate Judiciary Subcommittees on the Equal Rights Amendment; expresses irritation with "Barbara Walters' claim that the women's movement was not responsible for her achievement..."

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Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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Walters, Barbara, 1929-2022

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Barbara Walters (b. September 25, 1929, Boston, MA - d. December 30, 2022, Manhattan, NY) is a broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. She was the first woman to co-host a national news program for The Today Show on NBC in 1974. In 1976 she became the first female co-anchor of a network evening news program on ABC Evening News. ...

Gurko, Miriam.

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Leonard, Margery B.

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Lawyer Margery Chittenden Leonard was born in Aqawam, Mass., the daughter of Carolyn Shirley and Edwin Leonard. She graduated from Brown University (1929) and received her law degree from Boston University (1949). A vice-chair of the National Woman's Party, Leonard testified before Congress concerning the Equal Rights Amendment in 1971, and was instrumental in producing a pamphlet on the ERA that was presented to the Senate. Leonard worked for the John Hancock Company in Boston. She was a member...