Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards. 1893 - 2008. Photographs of Meetings, Activities, and the National Women's Conference

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Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards. 1893 - 2008. Photographs of Meetings, Activities, and the National Women's Conference

1975-1978

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1067657

This series consists of photographs of proceedings and activities associated with investigations by the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year on the status of women in U.S. society. Included are images of commission committees, hearings, meetings, the National Women's Conference, and other events held across the United States. For example, photographs taken during the Ruckelshaus tenure include a picture of the Governor of Tennessee, Bryant W. C. Dunn, at the Tennessee Women's Meeting in May 1975. There are also several photographs taken by Arlene Alda during a November 1975 commission meeting in Austin, Texas. Shown are the audience, individual speakers, panelists, including Gloria Steinem, Anne L. Armstrong, Jill Ruckelshaus, Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson with daughters Lucy Baines Nugent and Lynda Bird Robb, and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. In addition, there are pictures of Mrs. Doris Royal and five other women testifying on March 17, 1976, at a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. Congress on the impact of estate and gift taxes on women. There is one photograph from the tenure of Elizabeth Athanasakos. It is a group portrait of the commission members. The photographs taken during the chairmanship of Bella S. Abzug record some of the state and territorial meetings that were held to elect delegates to a national conference. In addition, there are photographs of delegates and other attendees, speakers, meetings, and various activities at the National Women's Conference, which was held in Houston, Texas in November 1977. A number of notable women are pictured, such as Betty Friedan, Patsy Mink, Maya Angelou, Barbara Jordan, and Coretta Scott King. Also included are several photographs documenting a torch run, which began at Seneca Falls, New York, site of the first women's rights convention held on July 19, 1848. Pictured are the relay runners along the route, people signing the Declaration of Sentiments that accompanied the torch on its journey, and the arrival of the torch in Houston after a 2,600 mile trip. Also pictured is the torch being presented to Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, and Rosalyn Carter at the official opening of the conference. A few textual documents are interspersed throughout this series, including caption lists and a program to the Virginia Women's Meeting that was held in June 1977 in Richmond, Virginia. The photographs in this series were taken by or credited to Arlene Alda, Adela Alonso, Mary Appelhoff, Bradford Bachrach, Nancy Bataglia, Michelle Bogre, Helen Bremberg, Jessica Z. Brown, Eunice Burns, Jim Caldwell, Bill Cronin, Editorial Women's Bureau, Pat Field, Ron Groeper, Teresina B. Guerra, Diana Mara Henry, Cary Herz, Robert E. Kaiser, Charley Kulbricht, Bettye Lane, Evelyn Light / Academy Press, Robert H. McNeill, Anne Marvin, Billy Rose, Saint Petersburg Times and Evening Independent, Stanley Seligson, Amanda Sessel, Debbie Sharpe, Dick Swartz, The United Nations, Anne Walker, Wide World Photos, Incorporated, and Lula Mae Winegar.

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Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998

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Bella Savitzky Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998), nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, U.S. Representative, social activist and a leader in the women's movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus. She was known as a leading figure in what came to be known as eco-feminism. In 1970, Abzug's first campaign slogan was, "This woman's place is in the House—the H...

Friedan, Betty, 1921-2006

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King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006

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Steinem, Gloria, 1934-

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Gloria Steinem, late 1960's Gloria Steinem was born on March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio to Leo Steinem and Ruth Nuneviller Steinem, the second of their two children (Suzanne Steinem was born in 1925). She grew up in Toledo and Clark Lake, Michigan, where the family ran a summer resort. Leo and Ruth divorced in 1945, and, with Suzanne away at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Gloria assumed responsibility for the care of her mother, who was incre...

Herz, Cary

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Angelou, Maya, 1928-2014

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Maya Angelou (b. Marguerite Annie Johnson, April 4, 1928, St. Louis, MO–d. May 28, 2014, Winston-Salem, NC) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, sex worker, nightclub dancer and performer, c...

Alda, Arlene, 1933-

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