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101. Phyllis Schlafly, National Women’s Conference 1977, Feminists and the ERA, Equal Rights Amendment  
… What confronted Michigan feminists while they were working for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment? Excerpt from “Passing the Torch,” by Carol King. (Running time 4:50) Used with permission.… …  
102. Phyllis Schlafly, National Women’s Conference 1977, Feminists and the ERA, Equal Rights Amendment  
… In 1972, however, Schlafly took up the cause of anti-feminism. “The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century,” she argued. “The truth is that… …  
103. Phyllis Schlafly, National Women’s Conference 1977, Feminists and the ERA, Equal Rights Amendment  
… During the 1977 National Women’s Conference in Houston, Schlafly and her Eagle Forum showed that right-wing women could organize and influence politics just as effectively as progressive feminists.… …  
105. Phyllis Schlafly, National Women’s Conference 1977, Feminists and the ERA, Equal Rights Amendment  
… Across town, almost fifteen thousand conservative women, assembled by Schlafly and other right-wing leaders, held their own conference. Instead of planks supporting abortion rights and the ERA,… …  
106. Phyllis Schlafly, National Women’s Conference 1977, Feminists and the ERA, Equal Rights Amendment  
… For all the controversy over its meaning, the language of the Equal Rights Amendment is straightforward: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any… …  
107. Phyllis Schlafly, National Women’s Conference 1977, Feminists and the ERA, Equal Rights Amendment  
… Why would women, including many social reformers, be opposed to equal rights under the law? In the 1920s the main stumbling block was protective legislation. Such laws — which limited the number of… …  
109. Phyllis Schlafly, National Women’s Conference 1977, Feminists and the ERA, Equal Rights Amendment  
… As the women’s movement picked up momentum, politicians and activists began to look at the ERA with fresh interest. After years of Congressional inaction, both houses of Congress passed the… …  
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The idea of the “Click! moment” was coined by Jane O’Reilly. “The women in the group looked at her, looked at each other, and ... click! A moment of truth. The shock of recognition. Instant sisterhood... Those clicks are coming faster and faster. They were nearly audible last summer, which was a very angry summer for American women. Not redneck-angry from screaming because we are so frustrated and unfulfilled-angry, but clicking-things-into-place-angry, because we have suddenly and shockingly perceived the basic disorder in what has been believed to be the natural order of things.” Article, “The Housewife's Moment of Truth,” published in the first issue of Ms. Magazine and in New York Magazine. Republished in The Girl I Left Behind, by Jane O'Reilly (Macmillan, 1980). Jane O'Reilly papers, Schlesinger Library.