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Mormons for ERA records, 1965-1993
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Mormons for ERA records
- Dates
- 1965-1993 (inclusive)19651993
1979-1983 (bulk)19791983 - 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
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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
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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 |
undated | ||
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 |
undated | ||
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) |
undated |
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) |
undated |
6 | 7 | California Chapter-Newsletters |
undated |
III.: EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT (ERA) |
undated | ||
Box | Folder | ||
7 | 1 | Sunstone (Congressional voting records) |
undated |
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) |
undated | ||
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 |
undated | ||
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 |
undated | ||
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 |
undated | ||
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 | |
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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 |
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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 |
undated |
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.