Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005)
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Chisholm, Shirley A. “For the Equal Rights Amendment.” In Congressional Record, 91st Cong., 2d Sess., 1970, 116, pt. 21: 28028-28029. [=A]
Chisholm, Shirley A. “For the Equal Rights Amendment.” In
American Rhetoric from Roosevelt to Reagan, 2nd ed. Ed.,
Halford Ross Ryan. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1987:
220-224. [=B]
Chisholm, Shirley A. “For the Equal Rights Amendment.” In “A
Critical Analysis of Selected Speeches on Women’s Rights by
Representative Shirley Chisholm.” Margaret Jean Hankle,
Master’s Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 1976:
Appendix F, 125-127. [=C]
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26 The Kanowitz quote was collated with the original source of the quotation and “inevitable” in the first sentence of the quote was changed to “inevitably” to follow the wording of the original source exactly. Quotation marks were added to indicate the direct quote. See Kanowitz, Leo. Women and the Law: The Unfinished Revolution. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969, 4.
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Library of Congress Classification
10 August 1970
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C
English
United States–Politics and Government
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