Bridging Generations with Collective Biography: Sharing Stories from 1977
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The episode discusses the significance of the 1977 National Women’s Conference and the Sharing Stories from 1977 Project.
Send us Fan Mail In 1977, thousands of women gathered in Houston, Texas, for the first and only federally funded National Women’s Conference (NWC) in U.S. History. Their purpose was to set and deliver an agenda to the president that would ensure that women’s rights would be a central focus in the wider human rights debate. The Sharing Stories from 1977 Project, led by Dr. Leandra Zarnow (Associate Professor of History, University of Houston) and Dr. Nancy Beck Young (Moores Professor of...
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