How and Why Was Feminist Legal Strategy Transformed, 1960-1973?
Document List
Document 1: Dorothy Kenyon and Phyllis J. Shampanier, Brief for the Appellant, Hoyt v. Florida, 1961
Document 2: Hoyt v. Florida, 1961
Document 3: Pauli Murray, "A Proposal to Reexamine the Applicability of the Fourteenth Amendment to State Laws and Practices Which Discriminate on the Basis of Sex Per Se," 1 December 1962
Document 4: Miriam Holden to Anita Pollitzer, 16 February 1963
Document 5: Miriam Y. Holden, "Argument in Favor of the Equal Rights Amendment, Made at the Request of the National Woman's Party," 23 March 1963
Document 6: National Woman's Party Resolution, adopted 16 December 1963
Document 7: Debate over Sex Amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 8 February 1964
Document 8: Pauli Murray, "Memorandum in Support of Retaining the Amendment to H.R. 7152, Title VII (Equal Employment Opportunity) to Prohibit Discrimination in Employment Because of Sex," 14 April 1964
Document 9: Pauli Murray, "The Legal Implications of Women-At-Work," 12 October 1965
Document 10: Pauli Murray and Mary Eastwood, "Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII," December 1965
Document 11: White v. Crook, 7 February 1966
Document 12A: Alma Lutz to Pauli Murray, 22 November 1965
Document 12B: Pauli Murray to Alma Lutz, 9 December 1965
Document 12C: Alma Lutz to Pauli Murray, 29 December 1965
Document 12D: Alma Lutz to Pauli Murray, 16 January 1966
Document 12E: Alma Lutz to Pauli Murray, 6 February 1966
Document 12F: Alma Lutz to Pauli Murray, 11 February 1966
Document 12G: Alma Lutz to Pauli Murray, 23 February 1966
Document 12H: Pauli Murray to Alma Lutz, 15 March 1966
Document 12I: Alma Lutz to Pauli Murray, 21 April 1966
Document 13: "Proposal for NOW," 1 January 1967
Document 14: Excerpt from Minutes, National Conference of NOW, November 1967
Document 15: [Mary Eastwood], "Constitutional Protection Against Sex Discrimination: An Informational Memorandum Prepared for the National Organization for Women (NOW) Regarding the Equal Rights Amendment and Similar Proposals," November 1967
Document 16: Pauli Murray to ACLU Equality Committee, memorandum, 30 March 1970
Document 17: "Why the Bayh Substitute to the Equal Rights Amendment Is Not Satisfactory to Women," 15 October 1970
Document 18: William H. Rehnquist, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, DOJ, to Leonard Garment, Special Counsel to the President, memorandum, 1970
Document 19: Esther Peterson to Martha Griffiths, 12 October 1971
Document 20: Melvin L. Wulf, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Allen R. Derr, Pauli Murray, and Dorothy Kenyon, Brief for the Appellant, Reed v. Reed, 1971
Document 21: Reed v. Reed, 1971
Document 22A: Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Elizabeth Langer, 14 April 1972
Document 22B: Marguerite Rawalt, Statement Regarding the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Reed v. Reed, 22 November 1971
Document 23A: William J. Brennan, Jr. to the Conference, memorandum, 14 February 1973
Document 23B: Justice Byron R. White to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., memorandum, 15 February 1973
Document 23C: Justice Potter Stewart to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., memorandum, 16 February 1973
Document 23D: Justice Lewis F. Powell to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., memorandum, 2 March 1973
Document 23E: Justice William O. Douglas to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., memorandum, 3 March 1973
Document 23F: Justice Harry A. Blackmun to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., memorandum, 5 March 1973
Document 23G: Justice Potter Stewart to Justice William Brennan, Jr., memorandum, 5 March 1973
Document 23H: Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., to Justice Lewis Powell, memorandum, 6 March 1973
Document 23I: Chief Justice Warren E. Burger to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., memorandum, 7 March 1973
Document 23J: Justice Potter Stewart to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., memorandum, 7 March 1973
Document 23K: Chief Justice Warren E. Burger to Justice Lewis F. Powell, memorandum, 8 May 1973
Document 23L: Justice William H. Rehnquist to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., memorandum, 8 May 1973
Document 24: Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973
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