Judith Lightfoot Cormack oral history interview [sound recording], 1998 August 11 ; 18.

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Judith Lightfoot Cormack oral history interview [sound recording], 1998 August 11 ; 18.

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Cormack discusses growing up in a socially progressive, middle-class, multi-ethnic New York neighborhood. She also describes her experiences traveling in Australia, where sex discrimination was blatant. She describes her work for NOW and the problems within its membership at both state and national levels. She also discusses social causes that were of importance to her, including reproductive rights for women, inequality within the legal system, and the challenges involved in fighting a conservative Georgia legislature.

3 sound cassettes : analog.3 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.transcript 130 leaves ; 28 cm.

Georgia State University

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Cormack, Judith Lightfoot, 1937-2006.

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Judith Gumpert Lightfoot Cormack was born in 1937, in New York, New York. Joining the National Organization for Women in 1969, she became a significant figure in the Women's Movement both in Georgia and nationally. She was a founding member of the Georgia Women's Political Caucus (1971), a member of the 1972 Georgia Commission on the Status of Women, and served as a member, southern regional director, and chair of the board during NOW's split in the 1970s. In 1978 Cormack moved to Australia, whe...

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The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed in Washington D.C. in 1966, and incorporated in 1967. The organization was formed to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of society, assuming all privileges and responsibilities in fully equal partnership with men. Local chapters were formed throughout the country and task forces were set up to deal with problems of women in areas such as employment, education, religion, poverty, law, politics, and image in the media....