[19770711_YHR2] Charge: Meeting Invalid

Women's Rights / Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Washington (State) / National Conference for Women / Washington State International Women's Year Conference (1977) / Minorty women

The article's first paragraph reads: "The Washington State Conference of Women was invalid, members of the Equal Rights Coalition charged at the end of the three-day sesion Sunday. Statement's by a black women's leader, Thelma Jackson of Olympia, and Jeannette Williams of Seattle, charged the federally mandated goal of the conference had not been met. They also claimed resolutions developed during the session did not represent women minorities."

Humphries, Jackie

Central Washington University Archives, RG027-06-61 University Relations Office--Newspaper clippings & Press Releases; Washington Sstate conference for Women, 1977 (Box 17)

Yakima Herald-Republic

1977-07-11

Central Washington University Archives & Special Collections

Reprinted by permission of the Yakima Herald-Republic. Please contact the newspaper for permission to reproduce.

Original newspaper clippings were scanned at 200 dpi TIFF files on an Epson Expressions XL scanner. JPEG images were then added to the Greenstone database at the Central Washington University's Brooks Library

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