2010.54.2127

Alice Paul: Author of the ERA
1977
11.00 in HIGH x 17.00 in WIDE
(27.94 cm HIGH x 43.18 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.2127

Left edge has: "Copyright (c) 1977 Lucy Picco Simpson. TABS: Aids for Ending Sexism in School- / Posters are featured in every issue of TABS: Aids for Ending Sexism In School, a quaterly journal - 744 Carroll St., 1D Brooklyn NY 11215".

The top of the poster has the text: "Alice Paul / Author of the ERA / January 11, 1885 - July 9, 1977". The center of the poster has a stylized drawing. The drawing shows a female figure at right, seen from the waist up she appears seated with her hands in her lap looking out towards the viewer. The background of the drawing has a horse drawn carriage followed by a large group of people holding a banner that reads: "Women". Behind the crowd is the dome of the United States Capitol building. The bottom of the poster has the text: " 'She will die, but she will never give up.' / -Comment of the psychiatrist called to examine Alice Paul while she was in prison in 1917. She was on a hunger strike to protest / her imprisonment for leading a women's suffrage demonstration outside the White House. Alice Paul wrote the original Equal / Rights Amendment, introduced in the U.S. Congress in 1923 and reintroduced in every Congress until approved for submission to / the states in 1972.".
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