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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Wed Jul 22, 2020, 08:18 AM Jul 2020

National Women's Conference, Nov 1977, Houston, chaired by Bella Abzug

All the feminist leaders of the era spoke

Between 17,000 to 22,000 attended

At the same time across the city, about 15,000 conservative women met, led by Phyllis Schlafly

Eta---a response to the UN declaring 1975 The International Year of the Woman

Eta---info from Wikipedia (I remember the conference. Attended workshop in IA where women who had attended reported what they had seen and heard)