Equal Rights Amendment Collection, PC.1619

Papers relating to the North Carolina legislative debates over ratification of the proposed Equal Rights (27th) Amendment, passed by Congress in 1972. For the first debate (1973) the collection contains newspaper clippings only. For the debates of 1975, 1977, and 1979, there are files of a number of state representatives containing correspondence and literature for and against the amendment; and papers of the chairmen of the House (1975, 1977) and Senate (1977) Constitutional Amendment committees, including correspondence, petitions, literature, research materials, speeches to the legislature, transcripts from some tape recordings of the public hearings, and statements prepared but not read at the hearings. Recordings of the 1977 hearings are in the Audiovisual Collection, N.C. State Archives. Speakers in 1975 and 1977 included William B. Aycock, Rhoda Billings, Albert Coates, Sam J. Ervin, Jr., Gen. Andrew J. Gatsis, Carolyn (Mrs. James B.) Hunt, Juanita Kreps, The Rev. Coy Privette, Grace Rohrer, Jessie Rae (Mrs. Robert W.) Scott, William Van Alstyne, and Ellen Winston. Also souvenirs from pro-ERA rallies (1978-1979).

Aycock, William B.

Billings, Rhoda

Coates, Albert

Gatsis, Andrew J.

Ervin, Samuel James, Jr.

Hunt, Carolyn Leonard

Kreps, Juanita

Privette, Coy

Rohrer, Grace

Scott, Jessie Rae

Van Alstyne, William

Winston, Ellen

North Carolina. General Assembly

North Carolina. General Assembly. Senate

North Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives

Women

Legislators

Equal rights amendments

Women, Status of

Constitutional amendments

Committees

Public meetings

Political participation

Orators

Generals

Governors' Spouses

Clergy

Rallies

Research