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Women's Rights Movement - 1970 NBC News Report - Reel America Preview 2
Women's Rights Movement - 1970 NBC News Report - Reel America Preview 2
Two minute video from April 1970 focusing on the Women's Rights movement in contraception and abortion which shows women at a congressional hearing. Audiences today might be surprised to see Senators smoking at a hearing concerning the health effects of contraception
·youtube.com·
Women's Rights Movement - 1970 NBC News Report - Reel America Preview 2
Howard W. Smith's addition of the word "sex" to the Civil Rights Act in an attempt to have the bill voted down
Howard W. Smith's addition of the word "sex" to the Civil Rights Act in an attempt to have the bill voted down
Howard Smith opposed the Civil Rights Bill in 1964 so he added the word "sex" to the bill, protecting women from employment discrimination. He thought that adding this to the bill would guarantee that it would fail. He was wrong. The legal protection of women in employment provided by the Civil Rights act was an accident
·history.house.gov·
Howard W. Smith's addition of the word "sex" to the Civil Rights Act in an attempt to have the bill voted down
What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women? – 1972 | Archives of Women's Political Communication
What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women? – 1972 | Archives of Women's Political Communication
Teachers engaging students in women's history and the women's rights movement of the late 20th century need to include the rhetoric of those opposed to it. Phyllis Schlafly provides this material
Women’s lib is a total assault on the role of the American woman as wife and mother, and on the family as the basic unit of society. Women’s libbers are trying to make wives and mothers unhappy with their career, make them feel that they are “second-class citizens” and “abject slaves.” Women’s libbers are promoting free sex instead of the “slavery” of marriage. They are promoting Federal “day-care centers” for babies instead of homes. They are promoting abortions instead of families.
·awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu·
What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women? – 1972 | Archives of Women's Political Communication