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Voting Rights and Legal Wrongs. A Commentary on S. 1564, the proposed "Voting Rights Act of 1965..."
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This booklet was distributed by the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government (VCCG) in opposition to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Commission began in 1958 and existed until the late 1960s.Led by David J. Mays, a prominent lawyer and…
Voting Rights Act...the first months
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Within the first six weeks after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, staff attorneys from the Commission on Civil Rights visited 32 Southern counties and parishes to study the implementation of the legislation. This document is their report,…
Constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; a response to the Attorney General of the United States...
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This booklet was distributed by the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government (VCCG) in opposition to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Commission began in 1958 and existed until the late 1960s. Led by David J. Mays, a prominent lawyer and…
American Association for Labor Legislation [membership solicitation card]
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Membership solicitation card published by the American Association for Labor Legislation. One side has an editorial cartoon by Gordon Grant, republished from Better Times, a New York welfare magazine. It shows a family standing under an arch in which…
Eugenics in Relation to the New Family and the Law on Racial Integrity.
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Eugenics in Relation to the New Family and the Law on Racial Integrity. Including a paper read before the American Public Health Association.Pamphlet created by W. A. Plecker, M.D.,Virginia state registrar of vital statistics from 1912 to 1946.…
Tags: eugenics, Legislation, race, racial integrity, Virginia, white supremacy
Permit granted to Equal Suffrage League of Virginia to hold public meetings in the street, June 23, 1915.
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Permit issued by the Mayor of Richmond, Va. allowing the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia to hold public meetings on the streets and in the parks of the city.On May 1, 1915, the ESL were denied permission to speak on city streets by Mayor Ainslie,…
Let the people VOTE to end gerrymandering. [bumper sticker]
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Bumper sticker created by OneVirginia2021, an American civic non-profit organization founded to advocate for a non-partisan redistricting of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Formed in 2014, OneVirginia2021 is made up of people from across the political…
Tags: gerrymandering, Legislation, Politics, Virginia, Voting
Free Our Districts! End Gerrymandering. [bumper sticker]
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Bumper sticker created by OneVirginia2021, an American civic non-profit organization founded to advocate for a non-partisan redistricting of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Formed in 2014, OneVirginia2021 is made up of people from across the political…
Tags: gerrymandering, Legislation, Politics, Virginia, Voting, voting rights
Interracial News Service, vol. 9, no. 2, February 1938
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A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908.…
Position of Farm Workers in Federal and State Legislation
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This pamphlet, written by Robin Myers and published by the National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, describes the rights of migrant farm workers in the late 1950s. This excerpt describes the conditions and the rights of child workers at both the…
Tags: agriculture, Braceros, child labor, children, education, farmworkers, Legislation, migrants, poverty, rural
Anti-School Busing Protest, February 1972
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Black and white photograph of a man and a woman in a car during an anti-busing motorcade to Washington, D.C. The car is driving past the U.S. Supreme Court building and has a poster taped to the driver's side door of the car. The poster is of "The…
Tags: anti-busing, busing, desegregation, education, Legislation, photograph, protest, segregation
Standards Recommended 1923 by the Committee on Uniform Laws concerning the Legal Status of Women
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This pamphlet created by the National League of Women Voters addresses the standards recommended by the committee on uniform laws concerning the legal status of women in 1923. The National League of Women Voters provide analyses of women's former,…
They Are Advancing
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Pamphlet advocating for theChild Labor Amendment,passed in 1924, but never ratified.
Woman's Bill of Rights: As introduced in the Virginia Legislature, 1922
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This leaflet produced by the National Woman's Party, Virginia Branch, is a copy of the Woman's Bill of Rights, as introduced in the Virginia Legislature in 1922. "To provide that women shall have the same rights, privileges and immunities under the…
How Virginia Laws Discriminate Against Women
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This leaflet entitled, "How Virginia Laws Discriminate Against Women," was compiled by Burnita Shelton Mathews, the Legal Research Secretary of the Legal Research Department of the National Woman's Party in 1922. As described on the back cover, this…
The Closing of Occupations To Women
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This leaflet was created by the Woman's Party to describe the important role the Woman's Party in campaigning for industrial equality as evidenced by increasing legislation restricting the industrial opportunities of women. "The effort to bar women…
What Have Women Done With the Vote?
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This article written by George Creel originally appeared in the March 1914 issue of Century Magazine and was reprinted in pamphlet form by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Creel's article provides an analysis of the consequences of…
Programme for the Weekly Meetings of the Equal Suffrage League of Richmond
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This program announces the topics and speakers for the Equal Suffrage League of Richmond's weekly meetings between Thursday, January 8, 1914 and Thursday, April 2, 1914. Topics for these weekly meetings include "Woman Suffrage and Organized…
Effect of the Vote of Women on Legislation
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This booklet is "an investigation in the equal suffrage states made in Dec., 1913, by 'The Evening Sun,' of New York City, and Brought up to the end of the legislative session of 1915." This report investigates the following questions: 1) "Do women…
A State Program on Education for Citizenship
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This pamphlet written by Martha E. D. White, Civic Director, Massachusetts League of Women Voters, is a program of events about citizenship and calls on women to become more actively engaged in the Education for Citizenship. As described by White,…
Programme of Social Hygiene Legislation of the National League of Women Voters
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This pamphlet was created by Dr. Valeria H. Parker, National Chairman of the Social Hygiene Committee of the National League of Women Voters, and outlines outlines the League's general platform and stances regarding the abolition of commercialized…
The Sheppard-Towner Bill: For the Protection of Maternity and Infancy
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A pamphlet in support of the Sheppard-Towner Bill (S. 1039, H. R. 2366) for the Protection of Maternity and Infancy. This bill "permits the formation of an advisory committee consisting of the Commissioner of Education, the Surgeon-General of the…
Tags: American Association of University Women, American Home Economics Association, Children's Bureau, Consumers' League, Council of Jewish Women, Daughters of the American Revolution, Department of Labor, General Federation of Women's Clubs, Girls' Friendly Society in America, League of Women Voters, Legislation, Maternal Mortality, National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations, National Federation of Business and Professional Women, public health, Sheppard-Towner Bill, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, women's history, Women's Trade Union League, YWCA
Campaigning against Industrial Evils
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Title printed across interior pages, "A Resume of the Work of the Consumers' League of the City of New York from January 1, 1914 to October 1, 1914"A pamphlet detailing the work and investigatory and legislative impact of the Consumers' League of the…
Tags: Consumers' League, labor, Legislation, New York, women's history
Independent Citizenship For Married Women
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Pamphlet promoting the Principle of Independent Citizenship for Married Women and detailing the Curtis, Rogers, Johnson, and Shortridge bills. "In a study carried out under the Carnegie Foundation the replies from THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY JUDGES…
The Eight-Hour Day for Women. Pamphlet by the National Women's Trade Union League
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The Eight-Hour Day for Women. Pamphlet by the National Women's Trade Union League petitioning for an eight-hour bill to be passed. "National Women's Trade Union League: The Eight-Hour Day. A Living Wage. To Guard the Home."