EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

P41-38.

HEARING

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. J. Res. 61

A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES RELA-
TIVE TO EQUAL RIGHTS FOR MEN AND WOMEN

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SEPTEMBER 28, 1945

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1945

STANFORD

LIBRARIES

Alice Morgan Wright, National Woman's Party-

Senate Joint Resolution 61..

Testimony of-

Senator George L. Radcliffe, of Maryland.......

Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller, Democratic national committeewoman

from Pennsylvania___

Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, General Federation of Women's Clubs..

Anna B. Hogan, National Woman's Party.

Orlo M. Brees, New York State assemblyman_.

Agnes Winn, National Education Association_.

Agnes E. Wells, National Woman's Party-

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Ella Sherwin, Industrial Women's League for Equality.

Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford_.

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Letter from Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, September

22, 1945.

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Letter from Senator Harry S. Truman, April 20, 1944.

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Letter from James A. Farley, May 4, 1945-

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Letter from Vice President Henry A. Wallace, January 27, 1944_

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Letter from Hon. Homer S. Cummings, September 24, 1945.

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Editorial from New York Herald Tribune, March 29, 1945-

Testimony of Mrs. Nina Horton Avery, National Federation of Business

and Professional Women

Statement by Mrs. Gertrude H. Austin, attorney-

Mrs. Nora Stanton Barney, National Woman's Party-

Dr. Mildred W. Dickerson, Association of American Women Dentists_

Mary E. Downey, National Woman's Party.

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Mrs. Dorothy Shipley Granger, St. Joan Society.

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Mary Kennedy, Indiana Society for the Equal Rights Amendment_

Mrs. Ellis A. Schnabel, American Council for Equal Status

Anita Pollitzer, National Woman's Party...

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Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, National Association of Colored Women

Dr. Mary Philbrook, New Jersey Committee to Eliminate Discrimina-

tions Against Women

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Laura M. Berrien, National Association of Women Lawyers

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Dr. Florence A. Armstrong, American Federation of Soroptimist

Clubs__

Mrs. Kathryne B. Withrow, Industrial Women's League for Equality-

Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, Wheel of Progress..

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Brief by Dorothy Ashby Moncure, attorney

Testimony of Mrs. Rudolph Vincenti, Women's Citywide Club of Balti-

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Further testimony by Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller

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