A Guide to the Elizabeth Smith collection of Virginia ERA Ratification Council records, 1970-2002 M 425
Repository
VCU James Branch Cabell Library
Identification
M 425
Title
Elizabeth Smith collection of Virginia ERA Ratification Council records 1970-2002
Quantity
8.42 Linear Feet, 17 document cases, 1 newspaper box, 1 print box, 1 small CD box
source
Smith, Elizabeth
Creator
Virginia Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Council
Language
English
.
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
Elizabeth Smith collection of Virginia ERA Ratification Council records, 1970-2002, Collection # M 425, Special Collections
and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Elizabeth Smith in 2009.
Elizabeth Smith served as executive director the Virginia Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Council, and she continued to
collect materials pertaining to the amendment throughout her time with the Council and in the years following.
The Virginia Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Council was a coalition of multiple Virginia organizations brought together
by the shared goal of advocating for the ratification of the amendment by Virginia's legislature. The Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA) states that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on
account of sex." It was approved by the House of Representatives and the US Senate, and then submitted to the states for ratification
in 1972. As of October 2018, the Virginia legislature has yet to ratify the ERA.
This collection consists of materials acquired by Elizabeth Smith and includes a large quantity of materials created by or
concerning the Virginia Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Council. Also included within this collection are items from a
number of other organizations such as the National Organization for Women (NOW), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Homemakers
for the ERA (HERA), the National Women's Party (NWP) and many other pro-ERA organizations of the time. The collection also
holds materials documenting the anti-ERA voice of the same era. Materials found in the collection include reports, correspondence,
minutes, agendas, printed materials, educational materials, lobbying materials, event ephemera, speeches, and a substantial
quantity of clippings. The collection's contents illuminate the efforts of the Virginia Equal Rights Amendment Ratification
Council and other organizations to advocate for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment during the latter decades of
the twentieth century.
The collection is organized in four series: Series 1: Organizational records, 1972-1996; Series 2: Pro-ERA Organizations,
1971-2002; Series 3: Subject Files, 1970-1996; Series 4: Clippings, 1971-1996.
Equal rights amendments -- Sources -- Virginia
Smith, Elizabeth
Women -- Political activity -- Virginia -- Richmond.
Women political activists -- Archives -- Virginia
Women's rights -- History -- 20th century -- Southern States
1972-1996
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 1-2
Agendas and meeting minutes
1974-1991
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 3
Bylaws
1978-1982
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 4
Coalition building
circa 1975
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 5-6
Correspondence
1973-1996, undated
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 7
Election law violation report - Larry Pratt, Virginia House of Delegates
1977
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 8 Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 1
Electoral activities
1977-1978, undated
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 2
ERA Summit
1994-1995
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 3
Essay contest
1983
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 4
Essays and speeches
1974-1987, undated
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 5
Events
1974-1994, undated
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 6
Executive committee rosters
1978-1986, undated
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 7-8
Finances
1974-1989, undated
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 9
Forms and mailers
1978-1994, undated
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 10
Gala
1981
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 11
Informational flyers and pamphlets
1974-1987, undated
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 1
Initiative planning
1976-1982, undated
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 2
Interfaith Task Force
1979-1982
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 3
Jean Hellmuth materials
1981
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 4
Jean Stapleton cassette tape
undated
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 5
Legislative strategies
1978, undated
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 6
Legislator's kit
1981, undated
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 7
Mailing lists
1977, undated
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 8
Member and attendance lists
1976-1980, undated
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 9
Memoranda
1976-1982, 1993
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 10
Newsletters
1973-1982, undated
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 1
Notecards
undated
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 2
Notes
1976-1996, undated
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 3
Organizational overviews
undated
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 4
Photographs
1978-1990, undated
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 5
Prayer breakfast
1978-1979
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 6
Press releases
1975-1993
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 7
Ratification updates
1974, 1992-1995
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 8
Referendum materials
1977, undated
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 9
Research and Education Fund
1982-1985
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 10
Resolutions
1975-1977, 1991
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 11
Richmond area ERA YES campaign
1975-1982
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 12
Speakers' Bureau
1976-1980, undated
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 13
Steering committee
1977-1978, undated
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 1
Supporters' handbook
circa 1983
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 2
Supporters of ERA lists
1981, undated
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 3
Training materials
1976, undated
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 4
Vigil preparations
1978-1979
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 5
Vigils
1979-1995, 2001 undated
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 6-7
Virginia legislature
1974-1994, undated
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 8
Virginia State Library records transfer
1982, undated
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 9
Volunteers
1977, undated
1971-2002
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 10
American Association of University Women
1974-1979
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 11
American Civil Liberties Union
1975-1981, undated
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 1
Association of American Colleges
1972-1974
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 2
Bar Associations
1982, undated
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 3
Business and Professional Women's Clubs
undated
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 4
California Commission on the Status of Women
1975
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 5
Catholics Act for ERA
1976-1982, undated
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 6
Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women
1966-1976, undated
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 7
Common Cause of Virginia
1977, 1986
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 8
Congressional Union
1980, undated
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 9
Democratic National Committee
1976-1981, undated
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 10-11 Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 1
ERAmerica
1976-1981
Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 2
Homemakers' Equal Rights Association
1975-1982, undated
Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 3
Institute for Studies in Equality Equal Rights Monitor
1976-1977
Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 4-5
International Women's Year
1976-1991, undated
Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 6
League of Women Voters
1972-1978
Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 7
League of Women Voters of Virginia and local chapters
1975-1984
Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 1
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
1976-1977, undated
Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 2-3
National Organization for Women
1971-1992, undated
Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 4
National Organization for Women - Richmond
1976-1990
Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 5
National Organization for Women - Virginia
1974-1987
Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 6
National Women's Party
1978-2002, undated
Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 7
National Women's Political Caucus
1979-1990
Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 1
National Women's Political Caucus of Virginia
1981-1993
Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 2
Religious Committee for ERA
1975-1982, undated
Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 3
Republican National Committee
undated
Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 4
Reston ERA Coalition
1981-1982
Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 5
Richmond Committee on the Concerns for Women
1979-1985
Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 6
Richmond Council of Women's Organizations
1976
Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 7
United Methodist Church
1978, undated
Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 8-10
United States Commission on Civil Rights
1975-1985
Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 11
University of Virginia Institute of Government
1974-1984
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 1
Virginia Council of Churches
1981-1982, undated
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 2
Virginia Education Association
1980-1982, undated
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 3
Virginia ERA Ratification Project
1981
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 4
Virginia Women Attorneys Association
1981-1986
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 5
Virgina Women's Meeting
1977
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 6
Virginians for the Equal Rights Amendment Political Action Committee
1977-1979, undated
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 7
Women and the Constitution Institute
1987
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 8
Women's Action Alliance
1978-1979, undated
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 9
Women's Bureau
1980-1984
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 10
Women's Center of Richmond
1974, undated
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 11
Women's Equity Action League
1976-1982, undated
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 12
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
1972-1989, undated
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 13
Women's Round Table
1979-1989
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 14
Young Women's Christian Association
1978-1989, undated
1970-1996
Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 15
Abortion
1976-1987
Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 1-2
Anti-ERA flyers and pamphlets
1972-1982
Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 3
Anti-ERA rebuttal information
1977-1981, undated
Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 4
Background information on the ERA
1973-1992, undated
Mixed Materials box: 20
Buttons, bracelet, and bear ornament
undated
Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 5
Christian denominations
1975-1982, undated
Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 6
Credit access
1975-1980
Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 7
Education
1974-1981, undated
Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 8
Equal Employment
1972-1989, undated
Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 9
Essays and speeches
1972-1987, undated
Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 10
Extension and rescission of ratification
1973-1981, undated
Mixed Materials box: 12 folder: 1
Family
1975-1986, undated
Mixed Materials box: 12 folder: 2-4
Informational flyers and pamphlets
1975-1989, undated
Mixed Materials box: 12 folder: 5
Informational flyers and pamphlets - Virginia
1976-1985, undated
Mixed Materials box: 12 folder: 6
Labor
1976-1983
Mixed Materials box: 12 folder: 7
Language
1976, undated
Mixed Materials box: 13 folder: 1
Lobbying
1977-1981
Mixed Materials box: 13 folder: 2
Military draft
1970-1981, undated
Mixed Materials box: 13 folder: 3
Music and religious services
1978-1988, undated
Mixed Materials box: 13 folder: 4
Pay Equity
1981-1987, undated
Mixed Materials box: 19
Pennant, sashes, and textiles
undated
Mixed Materials box: 13 folder: 5
Phyllis Schlafly Report
1973-1981
Mixed Materials box: 18 folder: 7
Posters
1975-2002, undated
Mixed Materials box: 13 folder: 6
Property rights, marriage, and divorce
1978-1982, undated
Mixed Materials box: 13 folder: 7
Resource bibliographies and lists
1973, undated
Mixed Materials box: 13 folder: 8
Retirement
undated
Mixed Materials box: 13 folder: 9
Sexual assault and domestic violence
1977-1985
Mixed Materials box: 13 folder: 10
Socialism
1978-1979, undated
Mixed Materials box: 13 folder: 11-12
State materials on ERA
1972-1995
Mixed Materials box: 14 folder: 1
Unitarian Universalism
1976-1985
Mixed Materials box: 14 folder: 2
United States Congress
1976-1990, undated
Mixed Materials box: 14 folder: 3-6 Mixed Materials box: 15 folder: 1
Virginia legislature
1976-1983, undated
Mixed Materials box: 15 folder: 2
Virginia legislature - ERA Task Force
1974
Mixed Materials box: 15 folder: 3
Virginia Military Institute case
1973-1996, undated
Mixed Materials box: 15 folder: 4
Virginia State Board of Elections
1979, undated
1971-1996
Mixed Materials box: 15 folder: 5
Articles
1976-1990
Mixed Materials box: 15 folder: 6-7 Mixed Materials box: 16 folder: 1-4 Mixed Materials box: 17 folder: 1-5 Mixed Materials box: 18 folder: 1-6
Newspaper clippings
1971-1996, undated