Mormons for ERA records, 1965-1993

Overview of the Collection

Title
Mormons for ERA records
Dates
1965-1993 (inclusive)
1979-1983 (bulk)
Quantity
25 boxes, (9.25 linear feet)
Collection Number
UUS_COLL MSS 225
Summary
The collection pertains to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), its legislation, ratification process, and the many other complex issues involving the pro-ERA movement and anti-ERA groups. The collection deals, for the most part, with Alice Allred Pottmyer's, Hazel Davis Rigby's, and Maida Rust Withers's involvement in the organization Mormons for ERA, the organization itself, and the involvement of Mormons for ERA in the national debate over ERA. A substantial amount of material relates to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its official stand against ERA. One of the main focal points of the collection is the excommunication of Sonia Johnson from the LDS Church.
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to public research.

Languages
English.
Sponsor
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Mormons for ERA was officially organized during the winter of 1978. The co-founders of the organization were Hazel Davis Rigby, Maida Rust Withers, Teddie Wood, and Sonia Johnson. Mormons for ERA was a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. The organization was officially incorporated April 11, 1980.

Sonia Johnson was voted the first president and main spokesperson for the organization on May 7, 1980. On December 11, 1982, she officially resigned as president but still remained on the Board of Directors. Alice Allred Pottmyer was a member of the organization (she prepared many of the press releases) and succeeded Sonia Johnson as president on December 11, 1982.

The original Board of Directors were as follows:

The Board of Directors as of 1985 are as follows:

Function of the organization: By 1978, 35 states had ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. Three more states needed to ratify in order to make it part of the US Constitution. Mormons for ERA were a pro-ERA organization that worked, rallied, and lobbied for the ERA to be ratified in those states that had yet to do so. Their major activities included: formal and informal relations with the media, lobbying legislators, informing and educating the public on ERA issues, and debating ERA issues in public forums. One of the obstacles Mormons for ERA saw as a threat to the Equal Rights Amendment was the LDS Church's stand against the Equal Rights Amendment (they formally opposed ERA on October 22, 1976) and the Church's support of anti-ERA lobbying efforts.

In 1978 the time period within which ERA needed to be ratified was quickly approaching. Congress took an unprecedented step and extended the time for ratification by three years to 1982. During the well-publicized hearings on the extension, Sonia Johnson was called to testify on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment before the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights on August 4, 1978. On that day, Sonia Johnson and Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah (who was a member of the LDS Church and who also opposed the ERA bill) clashed on the issues of ERA and also the LDS Church's opposition to it.

After the extension was passed by Congress, Mormons for ERA continued to campaign for ERA. But the significant turning point in the group's activities and media coverage came in November of 1979. The LDS Church called Sonia Johnson into a bishop's court. Bishop Jeffery Willis presided over the hearing to determine whether or not Sonia should be excommunicated from the church. Despite the many testimonies on behalf of Sonia and the support vigils outside the hearing, Sonia Johnson was officially excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on December 5, 1979. This act alone propelled Sonia Johnson and Mormons for ERA into the national media spotlight and the heated national debate over ERA.

Ultimately the Equal Rights Amendment failed by three states to ratify and has never been passed by Congress again. Mormons for ERA continued to function as an organization for several years after, but by about 1987 funds and interest had begun to diminish. Subsequently, the organization finally disbanded.

BIOGRAPHY--ALICE ALLRED POTTMYER

Alice Allred was born in South Dakota but spent her early years as an active Latter-day Saints youth growing up in Texas in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Her father was transferred to Washington, D.C. during the summer of 1954. Alice attended Brigham Young University and received her BS degree in journalism. During her time at BYU, she became friends with Maida Rust Withers and Hazel Davis Rigby (later to be founding members of Mormons for ERA).

Alice worked for twelve years in Washington, D.C. as a trade and professional editor. She married James Pottmyer and in 1972 left work and had her first baby, Laura. Their next child, Stephen, was born in 1975. With her young children at home and caring for her ailing mother-in-law, she would occasionally do part-time editing jobs from her home. She wrote articles and produced Dialogue magazine for five years. She wrote numerous articles for Sunstone magazine, was twice an Arlington delegate to the Virginia Democratic Convention, volunteered for Arlingtonians for a Better County, was a member of the PTA, was a leader for the Girl Scouts, and worked for the Church's public communications department.

Alice had long supported the Equal Rights Amendment, and in 1975 the issues of ERA began to heat up. With the increasing anti-ERA activity from conservative groups, including the LDS Church (the church formally opposed ERA October 22, 1976), Alice's friends from BYU, Maida Rust Withers and Hazel Davis Rigby, along with Teddie Wood and Soina Johnson, co-founded Mormons for ERA in 1978.

Although Alice was not a founding member, she did a great deal of background work for the group. She organized and gave background information to the media about the organization and their activities, including their lobbying efforts, their views on the complexities of ERA issues, and their debates on ERA issues in public forums. She also developed the press kits that were given to the media. This proved to be an invaluable task once the media coverage exploded when the Church excommunicated Sonia Johnson on December 5, 1979.

On December 11, 1982, Alice Allred Pottmyer succeeded Sonia Johnson as president of Mormons for ERA and also took over the newsletter. She functioned as president until 1987, when the funds and interest had begun to diminish.

BIOGRAPHY--HAZEL DAVIS RIGBY

Hazel Davis grew up in Salem, Utah and was an active member of the Latter-day Saints community. One of her childhood friends was Maida Rust (Withers); they both attended BYU. Hazel received her BA from BYU and then went on to receive her MA from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She married Dr. Ronald K. Rigby (Department of Defense, Naval Sea Systems Command). Hazel met Sonia Johnson in 1961 while both were attending graduate school, along with their husbands, at the University of Minnesota.

Her husband began working at the Department of Defense, Naval Sea Systems Command, and she began teaching and became head of the Business Department at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia.

In 1978 she co-founded the organization Mormons for ERA along with Teddie Wood, Maida Rust Withers, and Sonia Johnson. She was treasurer. In November of 1980, Mormons for ERA were holding a demonstration in front of the Washington Temple in Washington State. A scuffle erupted between the demonstrators and anti-ERA supporters. Subsequently, the police were called and Hazel was one of several demonstrators who was arrested. In the years following, Hazel played other important roles in Mormons for ERA activities and development.

BIOGRAPHY--MAIDA RUST WITHERS

Maida Rust was born October 13, 1936, in Kanab, Utah. She was the youngest of eight children born to Isabelle Martina Luke and Woodruff Rust. She was raised in Salem, Utah ,as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from which she was a sixth-generation pioneer descendant. She graduated from Spanish Fork High School in 1954. She then attended Brigham Young University where she received her BS in music and dance in 1958. She completed her MA in dance from the University of Utah.

She began her teaching career at Purdue University. By this time, Maida had married her husband, Lawrence Arlen Withers (born in Rexburg, Idaho). In 1963 Maida took a teaching position at Howard University for one year. During that time ,she marched with the other faculty members (she being the only white female faculty) to the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King was giving a speech.

At the end of that year, she accepted a position in the Department of Theater and Dance as an associate professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. During her career at George Washington University, she directed the MFA dance program and taught advanced dance, dance and movement improvisation, choreography, and performance art theory. She also served on the Board of Directors of Washington Projects for the Arts for eight years and served a three-year term on the Kennedy Center Education Committee.

On September 19, 1964, Maida and her husband had their first child, Kristin Withers. Almost five years later they had their second child, Lawrence Luke Withers, on May 28, 1969. Two years later, on April 15, 1971, they had twins, Eric Pratt and Marc Pratt Withers. Despite her young family at home, Maida's professional and creative career began to shine. In 1974 Maida founded the critically acclaimed dance troupe Maida Withers Dance Construction Company.

During the early seventies, she became increasingly involved in the social and political issues of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. In 1975 the issues of the Equal Rights Amendment began to heat up. It was during this year that Maida Rust Withers and one of her friends, Teddie Wood, became active participants in the pro-ERA movement. But with increasing anti-ERA activity from conservative groups, including the LDS Church (the Church formally opposed ERA October. 22, 1976), Teddie Wood, Sonia Johnson, and Maida, along with one of Maida's close childhood friends, Hazel Davis Rigby, co-founded Mormons for ERA in 1978.

During the 1980s, Maida's focus on social reform turned to environmental awareness. The social issues of the past and her activism in the equal rights movement prepared her for her passionate environmental activism. In 1992 Maida Rust Withers and her dance troupe participated with other international artists for ecology at the historic United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development. Maida Rust Withers continues to tour nationally and internationally with her dance company and uses dance as interpretive means for environmental awareness. She has created over 35 distinctive works for the stage and video, and subsequently she has received a myriad of prestigious awards and accolades from her peers, critics, and the public.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Mormons for ERA collection consist of the papers donated by Alice Allred Pottmyer, Hazel Davis Rigby, and Maida Rust Withers, who collaborated in the founding of Mormons for ERA in 1978. The collection contains 25 boxes that includes correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets, financial records of Mormons for ERA, bulletins, minutes, testimonies, speeches, papers, congressional records, legal records, press kits, news clippings, photos, books, and memorabilia. The papers in the collection span the years 1965 to approximately 1993, with the bulk of the papers dating between 1979-1983.

The collection was treated as a whole, but each of the three women's papers were kept in their own separate collection, thus, the materials have some overlap and interconnection between each of the individual donor's papers. The collection is divided as follows: box 1-15 contain the collection of Alice Allred Pottmyer, boxes 16-20 contain the collection of Hazel Davis Rigby, and boxes 21-23 contain the collection of Maida Rust Withers. Within each of the three collections, the papers have been divided into five main subcategories: personal information, Mormons for ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Sonia Johnson.

The correspondence was arranged as follows: outgoing correspondence arranged by chronological date and incoming correspondence arranged alphabetical by last name. The correspondence is mainly divided into personal correspondence and the correspondence as it relates to the organization Mormons for ERA (example: contribution correspondence).

Items within the collection pertain to the Equal Rights Amendment, its legislation, ratification process ,and the many other complex issues involving the pro-ERA movement and anti-ERA groups (including the LDS Church and members of the US Congress). The papers deal, for the most part, with the women's involvement in the organization Mormons for ERA, the organization itself, and the involvement of Mormons for ERA in the national debate over the Equal Rights Amendment. A substantial amount of material relates to the LDS Church and their official stand against ERA. One of the main focal points of the collection is the excommunication of Sonia Johnson (first president of Mormons for ERA) from the LDS Church. This act alone propelled Sonia Johnson and the organization Mormons for ERA into the national media spotlight and the heated national debate over ERA.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Mormons for ERA must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives manuscript curator and/or the Special Collections and Archives department head.

Preferred Citation

Mormons for ERA, 1977-1983. (COLL MSS 234). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives department.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Organized into subcollections for each donor: Alice Allred Pottmyer, Hazel Davis Rigby, and Maida Rust Withers. Each subcollection is divided into the following subcategories: personal information, Mormons for ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Sonia Johnson.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Alice Allred Pottmyer, Hazel Davis Rigby, and Maida Rust Withers.

Related Materials

Mormons for ERA photograph collection P0144

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

ALICE ALLRED POTTMYER, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
I.: PERSONAL
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Box Folder
1 1
Correspondence-Outgoing (by date
1978-1984
1 2
Correspondence-Outgoing (by date
1985-1993
1 3
Correspondence-Incoming (alphabetical by last name)
undated
1 4
Papers and Statements Written by Alice Pottmyer
undated
1 5
Papers and Articles Written by Alice Pottmyer
undated
II.: MORMONS for ERA
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Box Folder
1 6
Press Kit (given to media the evening of Sonia Johnson's trial)
undated
1 7
News Packet
undated
1 8
Bulletins and News clippings
undated
1 9
Temple Demonstration (Bellevue, Washington
1980 November 15
1 10
Temple Demonstration (10 year reunion-
1990 November 17
1 11
Presentation at Sunstone
1986
1 12
Hanging by a Thread (paper about Jake Garn)
undated
1 13
Mormons for ERA Booklets and Pamphlets
undated
1 14
Minutes
April 1980-December 1982
1 15
Contribution Cards (alphabetical by contributors last name)
undated
1 16
Contribution Cards (return to sender)
undated
1 17
Member Survey (alphabetical by last name)
undated
1 18
Mailing List
undated
1 19
Requests to Remove Names from Mailing List
undated
1 20
Thank You Letters to Contributors by Alice Pottmyer (1984-1985 alphabetical by contributors last name)
undated
1 21
Thank You Letters to Contributors by Alice Pottmyer (1985 alphabetical by contributors last name)
undated
1 22
Thank You Letters to Contributors by Alice Pottmyer (1986 alphabetical by contributors last name)
undated
1 23
Thank You Letters to Contributors by Alice Pottmyer (1987 alphabetical by contributors last name)
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2 1
Ledger
1979-1982
2 2
Bank Statements (7/80 and 7/82 Commonwealth Bank, 11/93 Crestar)
undated
2 3
Bank Statements (1982-1983 Dominion National Bank)
undated
2 4
Bank Statements (1983-1991 Continental Federal)
undated
2 5
Stocks (Gentennial Capital Corporation,
1981-1984
2 6
Deposits
1983-1987
2 7
Expenses
undated
2 8
Exemption Status 501 C (3)
undated
2 9
Exemption Status 501 C (3) (correspondence by last name)
undated
2 10
Exemption Status 501 C (3) (application for recognition of exemption)
undated
2 11
Exemption Status 501 C (3)
1985
2 12
Incorporation (certificate of incorporation April 11, 1980, articles of incorporation, by-laws of MERA, minutes of organization meeting
May 7, 1980
2 13
Copy of Incorporation
undated
2 14
Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission (registration fee &franchise tax
1981-1985
2 15
Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission (letters and receipts)
undated
2 16
Income Tax Returns (1980 and 1981, prepared by Hester, Roth & Callaway)
undated
2 17
Income Statement
1980 - 1981
2 18
Income Statement
1982
2 19
Income Tax
1983
2 20
Income Tax Forms
1984
2 21
News Clippings
undated
3 1
Newsletters-Mormons for ERA (complete run,
April 1979-Winter 1987
3 2
Newsletter
1979 April
3 3
Newsletter
1979 November
3 4
Newsletter
1980 February
3 5
Newsletter
1980 June
3 6
Newsletter
1980 August
3 7
Newsletter
1980 October
3 8
Newsletter
1981 January
3 9
Newsletter
1981 March
3 10
Newsletter
1981 June
3 11
Newsletter
1981 August
3 12
Newsletter
1982 January
4 1
Newsletter
1982 April
4 2
Newsletter
1982 October
4 3
Newsletter
1983 February
4 4
Newsletter
1983 May
4 5
Newsletter
1983 October
4 6
Newsletter
1983 December
4 7
Newsletter
1984 Spring
4 8
Newsletter
1984 Summer/Fall
4 9
Newsletter
1985 Winter
4 10
Newsletter
1985 Spring
4 11
Newsletter
1985 Fall/Winter
5 1
Newsletter
1986 Spring
5 2
Newsletter
1986 Summer
5 3
Newsletter
1987 Winter
6 1
California Chapter-Board Meetings
1985 October-1986 April
6 2
California Chapter-Mailing List
undated
6 3
California Chapter-Bulletin
1985 May-1986 May
6 4
California Chapter-Misc. Correspondence
undated
6 5
California Chapter-Correspondence (letters to Alice Pottmyer, by date)
undated
6 6
California Chapter-Correspondence (letter from Alice Pottmyer, by date)
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6 7
California Chapter-Newsletters
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III.: EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT (ERA)
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Box Folder
7 1
Sunstone (Congressional voting records)
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7 2
Sunstone (Congressional voting records)
undated
7 3
Sunstone (Senate voting records)
undated
7 4
ERA Legislation
undated
7 5
ERA Facts and Action Guide
undated
7 6
Republican National Committee
1980 August 26
7 7
Family Instability
undated
7 8
ERA Supporters
undated
7 9
Equal Rights Coalition of Utah
undated
7 10
Virginia (politics and equal rights)
undated
7 11
Virginia (Arlington Journal
1980
7 12
Virginia (news clippings)
undated
7 13
Civil Rights (news clippings)
undated
7 14
Women's issues
undated
7 15
ERA (memorabilia)
undated
IV.: THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS (MORMONS)
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Box Folder
7 16
Anti-ERA Petitions (signed by Mormon members)
undated
7 17
Mormon Members in the Federal Government
undated
7 18
The American Historical Review
undated
7 19
Perpetuating Patriarchy: The Mormon Church's Anti-ERA Campaign
undated
7 20
Mormon Position Against ERA
undated
7 21
News Clippings
1978-1979
7 22
News Clippings
1980
7 23
News Clippings
1981
7 24
News Clippings
1982
7 25
News Clippings
1983-1986
7 26
News Clippings
undated
7 27
Correspondence (Rodney [?] and Irene [?])
undated
V.: PAPERS, SPEECHES, TESTIMONIES, etc.
undated
Box Folder
8 1
Testimony Before Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution
1984 May
8 2
UTAH WOMEN: A Profile-Governor's Commission on the Status of Women
1978 June
8 3
The Mormons and the Right to Work Law
1965
8 4
Papers on the Mormon Church (alphabetical by authors last name)
undated
8 5
Papers on the Mormon Church (alphabetical by authors last name)
undated
8 6
Papers on the Mormon Church (alphabetical by authors last name)
undated
8 7
Papers on the Mormon Church and Women (alphabetical by authors last name)
undated
8 8
Papers on the Mormon Church and Women (alphabetical by authors last name)
undated
8 9
Papers on the Mormon Church and Women (alphabetical by authors last name)
undated
8 10
Papers on the Mormon Church and Women (alphabetical by authors last name)
undated
8 11
Papers on the Mormon Church and Women (alphabetical by authors last name)
undated
8 12
Papers on the Mormon Church and Women (alphabetical by authors last name)
undated
VI.: SONIA JOHNSON
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Box Folder
9 1
Correspondence-Outgoing (by date)
undated
9 2
Correspondence-Incoming (alphabetical by last name)
undated
9 3
Correspondence-Incoming (alphabetical by last name)
undated
9 4
Papers Written by Sonia Johnson
undated
9 5
Donahue Transcript (Sonia Johnson guest
1979 December 12
9 6
Sonia Johnson's Run for Presidency of NOW
undated
9 7
Statements From First Presidency about ERA and Sonia Johnson
undated
9 8
Sonia Johnson (footnotes) (handouts to BYU students)
undated
9 9
Correspondence between Harry E. Fitzwater, Director of Personnel, CIA and Lee Perkins, Commissioner, Commission on Human Rights
undated
9 10
Sonia Johnson's Excommunication (pre-trial, news clippings
November 1979
9 11
Sonia Johnson's Excommunication (news clippings
December 1979
9 12
Sonia Johnson's Excommunication (appeal, news clippings
1980 January-April
9 13
News Clippings
1980-1987
9 14
Magazine Articles
1980
9 15
Register from the University of Utah: The Papers of Sonia Johnson
undated
VII.: Subject Files
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Box Folder
10 1
"A Group of Women"
undated
10 2
Anderson, Jack
undated
10 3
BYU-Jerusalem Center
undated
10 4
BYU-McConkie, Bruce R. (speech
1984 August
10 5
BYU-Miscellaneous
undated
10 6
BYU-Wilkinson, Ernest L. Diary (comprehensive index)
undated
10 7
Barrett, Michael J.
undated
10 8
Book reviews
undated
10 9
Brooks, Gayle Freeman
undated
10 10
Callister, Judge Marion Jones (letters and news clippings)
undated
10 11
Callister, Judge Marion Jones (motion by NOW to disqualify)
undated
10 12
Callister, Judge Marion Jones (response in opposition to motion by NOW to disqualify)
undated
10 13
Callister, Judge Marion Jones (affidavit of Renee M. Rampton)
undated
10 14
Campbell, Beverly
undated
10 15
Catholics Act for ERA
undated
10 16
Christian Right (paper by Georgia Elaine Fuller, Ph.D., chair NOW)
undated
10 17
Christian Right
undated
10 18
Christian Right
undated
10 19
Christian Right
undated
10 20
Christian Right
undated
10 21
Congressional Union
undated
10 22
Constitution Bicentennial
undated
11 1
Dalton, Cheryl
undated
11 2
Economic Equality Act
undated
11 3
ERA Hearings-Testimonies to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Senate Judiciary Committee
1984 June 22
11 4
ERA Hearings-Hearings-Testimonies to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Senate judiciary Committee
1984 August 7
11 5
ERA Hearings (miscellaneous)
undated
11 6
ERA Strategies
undated
11 7
ERA The Countdown
1982
11 8
ERA Fast (Springfield, IL
1982
11 9
ERA Illinois
undated
11 10
ERA Attempt to Rescind
undated
11 11
Excommunications
undated
11 12
Excommunication (Melissa Mowen-
1982
11 13
Freeman Institute-Cleon Skousen (articles of incorporation, bulletins, Freeman Institute courses)
undated
11 14
Freeman Institute-Cleon Skousen (news clippings)
undated
11 15
Fuller, Margaret and Stephen
undated
11 16
Fuller, Margaret and Stephen (legal papers)
undated
11 17
Fuller, Margaret and Stephen (legal papers)
undated
11 18
Fuller, Margaret and Stephen (legal papers)
undated
11 19
Fuller, Margaret and Stephen (legal papers)
undated
11 20
Fuller, Margaret and Stephen (legal papers)
undated
12 1
Fuller, Margaret and Stephen (legal papers)
undated
12 2
Fuller, Margaret and Stephen (legal papers)
undated
12 3
Fuller, Margaret and Stephen (legal papers)
undated
12 4
Fuller, Margaret and Stephen (legal papers)
undated
12 5
Gottlieb and Wiley
undated
12 6
Gottlieb and Wiley (paper on Cleon Skousen)
undated
12 7
Hatch, Senator Orrin G. (Women's Equity Action League)
undated
12 8
Hatch, Senator Orrin G. (news clippings)
undated
12 9
Hatch, Senator Orrin G. (news clippings)
undated
12 10
Hatch, Senator Orrin G. (letters and news clippings)
undated
12 11
Hatch, Senator Orrin G. (news clippings)
undated
12 12
Hawkins, Senator Paula (news clippings)
undated
12 13
LDS Citizen's Coalition
undated
12 14
LDS Citizen's Coalition
undated
12 15
LDS-General Handbook of Instructions
undated
12 16
LDS-The Church and the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment-A Moral Issue (enclosed in the February 1980 Ensign)
undated
12 17
LDS-General Articles
undated
12 18
LDS-General Articles
undated
12 19
LDS-General Articles
undated
12 20
LDS-Population Growth
undated
12 21
LDS-Women's Place
undated
13 1
LDS-Black Revelation (news clippings)
undated
13 2
LDS-Benson, Ezra Taft (speech August 25, 1979-The Honored Place of Women)
undated
13 3
LDS-Benson, Ezra Taft (speech February 26, 1980-Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophets)
undated
13 4
LDS-Constitution, U.S.
undated
13 5
LDS-Finances
undated
13 6
LDS-McConkie, Bruce R
undated
13 7
LDS-Media Council
undated
13 8
LDS-Members of Congress
undated
13 9
LDS-Press Book
undated
13 10
LDS-Reagan Administration
undated
13 11
LDS-Reagan Administration
undated
13 12
LDS-Reagan Administration
undated
13 13
LDS-Reagan Administration
undated
13 14
LDS-Reagan Administration
undated
13 15
LDS-Reagan Administration
undated
13 16
LDS-Regional Conference Demonstration
1979 September 9
13 17
LDS-Style Guide for Publications of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints
undated
13 18
Lee, Rex (nomination as U.S. Solicitor General)
undated
13 19
Lee, Rex (book review- A Lawyer looks at the ERA)
undated
13 20
Lee, Rex (paper- A Mormons Looks at Rex Lee)
undated
13 21
Lee, Rex (statements about Rex Lee)
undated
13 22
Lee, Rex (hearings on nomination for Solicitor General-
1981 June 19 - July 17
13 23
Lee, Rex (letters)
undated
13 24
Lee, Rex (Congressional Records)
undated
13 25
Lee, Rex (transcript of Face the Nation, Rex Lee guest-
1983 January 2
13 26
Lee, Rex (news clippings)
undated
14 1
Merrell, V. Dallas (news clippings)
undated
14 2
National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education
undated
14 3
National Family Reporter-
1980
14 4
National Family Reporter-
1981
14 5
National Family Reporter-
1982
14 6
National Family Reporter-
1983
14 7
National Organization for Women, Inc. (NOW)-ERA "Missionaries"
14 8
National Organization for Women, Inc. (NOW)-National Conference
1982
14 9
National Organization for Women, Inc. (NOW)-Press Release
undated
14 10
National Organization for Women, Inc. (NOW)-Press Release
undated
14 11
National Organization for Women, Inc. (NOW)-Speech to the National Press Club-
1981 June 25
14 12
Reagan and Women
undated
14 13
Religious Committee for the ERA-Press Kit
undated
14 14
Rigby, Hazel Davis
undated
14 15
Romney, George
undated
14 16
Shupe, Anson
undated
14 17
Smith, Barbara B. (speeches
1977
14 18
Smith, Barbara B. (paper and letters by Doris M. Harker)
undated
14 19
Smith, Barbara B. (paper and letters by Doris M. Harker)
undated
14 20
Smith, Barbara B. (paper and letters by Doris M. Harker)
undated
14 21
Title IX (testimony of Dallin H. Oaks-
1975 June 24
14 22
Title IX (testimonies-
1983 May 19
14 23
Title IX (news clippings)
undated
14 24
Title IX (news clippings)
undated
15 1
United Families of America
undated
15 2
Utah-Equal Rights Coalition
undated
15 3
Utah-Laws and Women
undated
15 4
Withers, Maida Rust
undated
15 5
Woman Activist
undated
15 6
Women and Education
undated
15 7
Women- Frontline
undated
15 8
Women Today
undated
15 9
Wood, Arlene
undated
15 10
Wood, Teddie
undated

HAZEL DAVIS RIGBY, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
I.: PERSONAL
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Box Folder
16 1
Correspondence-Outgoing (by date)
undated
16 2
Correspondence-Incoming (alphabetical by last name)
undated
16 3
Correspondence-Incoming (alphabetical by last name)
undated
16 4
Papers and Statements Written by Hazel Davis Rigby
undated
16 5
News Clippings About Hazel Davis Rigby
undated
16 6
T.C. Williams High School Newspaper Theogony
undated
16 7
Bellevue Temple Demonstration (Hazel Davis Rigby summery of arrest, taped transcript, and letters)
undated
16 8
Bellevue Temple Demonstration (press releases and newsletters)
undated
16 9
Bellevue Temple Demonstration (news clippings)
undated
16 10
Bellevue Temple Demonstration (ERA Action Line, Seattle, WA)
undated
16 11
Bellevue Temple Demonstration (Bellevue 21 demographic survey)
undated
II.: MORMONS for ERA
undated
Box Folder
16 12
By-Laws, Budgets, and Minutes
undated
16 13
Bulletins
undated
16 14
Mailing List
undated
16 15
Mailing List
undated
16 16
Mailing List
undated
16 17
Mailing List
undated
16 18
Correspondence-Outgoing (by date, from MERA to Legislators)
undated
16 19
Correspondence-Incoming (alphabetical by late name, form Legislators to MERA members)
undated
16 20
Correspondence-Outgoing (by date)
undated
16 21
Correspondence-Incoming (alphabetical by late name)
undated
16 22
Excerpts form Mormons on Equal Rights in the 1800's
undated
16 23
Utah Mormons for ERA
undated
16 24
Utah Mormons for ERA (papers)
undated
16 25
Miscellaneous Information on Mormon Church Compiled by Mormons for ERA
undated
III.: THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS (MORMONS)
undated
Box Folder
17 1
Mormon Church Position on ERA
undated
17 2
Northern Virginia LDS Citizens Coalition
undated
17 3
Materials Presented to Faculty at BYU
1976 November 11
17 4
Papers and Statements
undated
17 5
News Clippings
undated
17 6
News Clippings
undated
17 7
Magazine Articles
undated
17 8
Articles of Faith
undated
17 9
Legal Papers
undated
IV.: EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT (ERA)
undated
Box Folder
18 1
Testimonies Before the U.S. Senate Constitutional Rights Subcommittee-
1978 August 4
18 2
Legislation and Congressional Records
undated
18 3
Congressional Records
1978 September 27
18 4
Congressional Records
1978 October 4
18 5
Women and ERA
undated
18 6
ERA (newsletters from various pro-ERA organizations)
undated
18 7
ERA (newsletters from various pro-ERA organizations)
undated
18 8
ERA (newsletters from various pro-ERA organizations)
undated
18 9
News Clippings
undated
18 10
Virginia Legislators
undated
18 11
The legal Status of Homemakers in Virginia
undated
18 12
The Final Report of the Virginia Women's Meeting
undated
18 13
Virginia ERA Ratification Council
undated
18 14
Papers by Jan L. Tyler
undated
18 15
Papers on ERA
undated
19 1
Papers on Extension of ERA
undated
19 2
Sexism and Sex-Role Stereotyping
undated
19 3
National Organization for Women (NOW)
undated
19 4
National Organization for Women (NOW)
undated
19 5
National Organization for Women (NOW)-Religious Action Packet
undated
19 6
National Organization for Women (NOW)-Newsletters
undated
19 7
National Organization for Women (NOW)-1978 National Convention
undated
19 8
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
undated
19 9
Religious Committee for the ERA-Press Kit
undated
19 10
Rally Material (prayer verse, song sheets, etc.)
undated
19 11
Flyers
undated
19 12
ERA (memorabilia)
undated
19 13
Pamphlets
undated
19 14
Booklets
undated
V.: SONIA JOHNSON
undated
Box Folder
19 15
Correspondence-Incoming (alphabetical by last name)
undated
19 16
Excommunication
undated
19 17
Papers Written by Sonia Johnson
undated
VI.: NEWS CLIPPINGS
undated
Box Folder
20 1
News clippings,
1978 August-October
20 2
News clippings,
1979 January-July
20 3
News clippings,
1979 September-November
20 4
News clippings,
1979 December
20 5
News clippings,
1980 January-August
20 6
News clippings,
1981 June-September
20 7
News clippings,
undated
20 8
Magazine Articles-
1979
20 9
Magazine Articles-
1980

MAIDA RUST WITHERS, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
I.: PERSONAL
undated
Box Folder
21 1
Correspondence-Outgoing (by date)
undated
21 2
Correspondence-Incoming (alphabetical by last name)
undated
21 3
Papers and Statements Written by Maida Withers
undated
II.: MORMONS for ERA
undated
Box Folder
21 4
Correspondence-Outgoing (by date, from MERA members to Legislators)
undated
21 5
Correspondence-Incoming (alphabetical by last name, from Legislators to MERA members)
undated
21 6
Mailing List
undated
21 7
Incorporation (articles of incorporation, by-laws, minutes September 22, 1979, press release, etc.)
undated
21 8
The Mormon Church and the ERA (paper and attachments)
undated
21 9
Copy of Attachments
undated
21 10
Virginia
undated
21 11
Utah
undated
21 12
Florida, LA, Washington
undated
21 13
Nevada
undated
21 14
Pro-Women's Rights (Mormon writings in the 1800's)
undated
21 15
News clippings
1978
21 16
News clippings
1979
21 17
News clippings
1980-1981
21 18
Magazine Articles
undated
21 19
Magazine Articles
undated
21 20
Papers (by authors last name)
undated
21 21
Teddie Wood
undated
21 22
Miscellaneous (pamphlets, fliers, etc.)
undated
III.: THE CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST of LATTER-DAY SAINTS (MORMONS)
undated
Box Folder
22 1
Mormon Church on ERA
undated
22 2
Mormon Church and Social Issues
undated
22 3
Articles on the Mormon Church
undated
22 4
Ancient Matriarchies by Hugh Nibley
undated
22 5
Papers on the Mormon Church
undated
22 6
The Mormon Church's Anti-ERA Position (Kansas City, Missouri)
undated
22 7
Virginia LDS Citizens Coalition (minutes of meeting
1978 November 8
22 8
Potomac Region LDS Women Coalition-Equality Seminar
1978 November 8
IV.: EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT (ERA)
undated
Box Folder
23 1
ERA Correspondence with Legislators-Outgoing (by date)
undated
23 2
ERA Correspondence with Legislators-Incoming (alphabetical by last name)
undated
23 3
National Organization for Women (NOW)-Nat. Conference
1978 October 7
23 4
ERA-Legislative History
undated
23 5
ERA-Congressional Records
undated
23 6
ERA-Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary U.S. Senate-
1981 June 19 - July 17
23 7
Callister, Judge Marion Jones (papers and news clippings)
undated
23 8
Callister, Judge Mairon Jones (motion by NOW to disqualify)
undated
23 9
ERA Cartoons
undated
23 10
Women's Rights
undated
23 11
University of Richmond V.s. Terrell H. Bell (judgment)
undated
23 12
Conservative View on ERA (anti-ERA)
undated
V.: SONIA JOHNSON
undated
Box Folder
23 13
Correspondence-Outgoing (by date)
undated
23 14
Correspondence-Incoming (alphabetical by last name)
undated
23 15
Correspondence-Miscellaneous
undated
23 16
Papers Written by Sonia Johnson
undated
23 17
Excommunication Hearing (testimonies, letters, press releases, etc.)
undated
23 18
News Clippings
1979-1982

REALIA, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
24 1
Hazel Davis Rigby's ERA Sash
undated
24 1
Item 1: Buttons (Latter-day Suffragist for ERA, Another Mormon for ERA, etc.)
undated
24 1
Item 2: Hazel Davis Rigby Audio Tape Temple Demonstration
undated

NEWS CLIPPINGS, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
25
Original News Clippings from Various Newspapers Around the Country on ERA, Mormons for ERA, etc.
undated

Appendix, undatedReturn to Top

Description Dates
ALICE ALLRED POTTMYER
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Photos
undated
1: Mormons for ERA
(Box 1 Fd 2 ) (see photo section of Special Collections)
undated
2: Mother's Day ERA
(Box 1 Fd 8 ) (see photo section of Special Collections)
1980 March
3: Equality Day Parade
(Bx 1 Fd 8 )(see photo section of Special Collections)
1977
4: California Mormons for ERA
(Box 6 Fd 4 ) (see photo section of Special Collections)
undated
5: Hotel Utah
(Bx 6 Fd 4 )(see photo section of Special Collections)
undated
6: Cheryl Dalton
(Bx 11 Fd 1 )(see photo section of Special Collections)
undated
7: White House ERA Demonstration
(see photo section of Special Collections)
August 1981
8: 20th Anniversary of M.L.K. March
(see photo section of Special Collections) 9. Plane Tow Oct. 1983 (see photo section of Special Collections)
August 27 1983
Books
undated
1: Constitution and Canons
1964
2: Constitutional Inequality by Gilbert Y. Steiner
1985
3: Wildfire by Sonia Johnson
1989
4: The Ship That Sailed Into the Living Room by Sonia Johnson
1991
5: Going Out of Our Minds by Sonia Johnson
1987
6: Hidden Power by Roland Perry
1984
7: Reagan's Ruling Class by Ronald Brownstein and Nina Easton
1982
8: The Best Man Doesn't Always Win by Renee Pyott Carlson
1984
HAZEL DAVIS RIGBY
undated
Photos
undated
1: Photo taken in Rochester
(Bx 16 Fd. 3 ) (see photo section of Special Collections)
1980
Other
undated
1: N.O.W. Newspaper
(see Stacks section of Special Collections)
undated
MAIDA RUST WITHERS
undated
Photos
undated
1: Women climbing the White House fence
(see photo section of Special Collections)
September 1982
Other
undated
1: Exponent II-two copies
(see Special Collections, Stacks)
undated

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Equal rights amendments--United States.
  • Excommunication--Mormon Church.
  • Mormon Church--History--20th century.
  • Mormon women--United States--History--20th century.
  • Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--United States.
  • Women's rights--United States--History--20th century.