Equal Rights Newsletter
Scope and Contents
Equal Rights was a publication of the National Woman's Party. Began in 1923, it was the successor to the failed Suffragist. Its name is representative of its purpose: the editors of the newsletter believed that the only way to achieve equality amongst the sexes was to introduce an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. In addition to lobbying for the introduction of a Constitutional Amendment, it discussed feminist concerns, and developments on a national as well as a global scale. In 1935 the editor of Equal Rights left the Party to create the independently published Equal Rights: Independent Feminist Weekly. The NWP still maintained the publication of the newsletter(as well as the name Equal Rights), but with a new editorial staff. The Valdosta State University Archives houses copies of the NWP's Equal Rights from 1924-1954, as well as a few editions of the Independent Feminist Weekly. VSU Archives maintains a databased of topics covered during publication under this collections's digital material .
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Dates
- Acquired: 2015-03-11
- 1924 - 1954
Creator
- National Woman's Party (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
2.0 Boxes
Language
English
Custodial History
Sewall Belmont House and Museum transferred control of Equal Rights to VSU Archives
Source of Acquisition
Sewall Belmont House and Museum. A. Page Harrington
Method of Acquisition
A signed letter announcing the transfer of control from SBHM to VSU Archives and Special Collections.
- Title
- Archon Finding Aid Title
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2020-05-19: Revised for DACS compliance by Douglas Carlson
- April 2024: Added digital objects and linked to Vtext (repository) by Taylor Naquin
Repository Details
Part of the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections Repository
Valdosta State University Archives, Odum Library
1500 N. Patterson St.
Valdosta GA 30601 United States
7063728116
229-259-5055 (Fax)
archives@valdosta.edu