The Equal Rights for Women Bills
One hundred years ago today … The NYC papers ruminated over the Equal Rights for women amendments being proposed in Albany and Washington, D.C. Eunice Dana Brannan and Elizabeth Selden Rogers, leaders of the National Woman’s Party, defended the bills against criticism leveled against them in a Times editorial of January 17. Another NWP founder, suffragist activist Alice Paul, gave a lengthy interview for the Eagle.
New York Times, 29 January 1922, p. 8. New York Times.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 29 January 1922, p. 27. Library of Congress.
The National Woman’s Party and its NYC chapter were active in supporting these bills. Below is the News’s feature of Burnita Shelton Matthews, described here as the NWP “legal research secretary”. She was the organization’s lawyer. (See “Burnita S. Matthews Dies at 93; First Woman on U.S. Trial Courts.” New York Times, 28 April 1988, p. D. 27.)
New York Daily News, 6 January 1922, p. 27. Library of Congress.
– Jonathan Goldman, Jan. 29, 2022
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