North Dakota Coordinating Council for the Equal Rights Amendment Records

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: General correspondence: 1973-1977

Folder 2: CCERA correspondence: 1974-1975

Folder 3: Constituent correspondence: 1975

Folder 4: Correspondence to the Legislature regarding ERA: 1974-1975

Folder 5: Miscellaneous correspondence: September 1974-February 1975 (mostly that of Donna Chalimonczyk)

Folder 6: Letters for Senate Judiciary and Donna Chalimonczyk

Folder 7: Personal messages to Donna Chalimonczyk

Folder 8: Financial material: 1974-1975

Folder 9: CCERA financial statement: February 22, 1975

Folder 10: Organizational meeting minutes: May 11, 1974

Folder 11: Board meeting minutes, memos to board members, questionnaire: May-December 1974

Folder 12: Petitions for ERA: 1974

Folder 13: Petitions for referendum: March 1974

Folder 14: Poll of legislature and legislative candidates on ERA: 1974

Folder 15: Profiles of North Dakota legislators: 1974-1975

Folder 16: Strategy: 1974

Folder 17: CCERA survey: 1972-1977

Folder 18: Successful candidate surveys: 1974

Folder 19: Unsuccessful candidate surveys: 1974

Folder 20: Testifier: 1975

Folder 21: True/False Questionnaire: 1973

Folder 22: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (true/false informational survey): July 1971

Folder 23: ERA promotional material from various national groups

Folder 24: ERA coalitions in other states: May 1974

Folder 25: Groups in favor of or opposed to ERA: November 1974-January 1975

Folder 26: Men for ERA, mailing and membership lists: undated

Folder 27: CCERA Newsletter: June 1974-February 1975

Folder 28: Various newsletters from political groups in North Dakota, 1974-1975

Folder 29: The Greeter (Bismarck promotional magazine): March 1978

Folder 30: The ERA--News and Views: March 1974

Folder 31: ND Now: 1977

Folder 32: Newsletters from other states regarding ERA: 1975

Folder 33: Federal and state labor bulletins: 1972-1973

Folder 34: Examples of Pro-ERA form letters: 1974-1975

Folder 35: Miscellaneous notes taken down during the debate surrounding ERA

Folder 36: Notes on potential pro-ERA lobbyists: October 1974

Folder 37: ERA supporting documents, including campaign strategy and ERA Coloring Book: undated

Box 2

Folder 1: Donna Chalimonczyk’s Calls Diary: September 1974-January 1975

Folder 2: Pro-ERA pamphlets: undated

Folder 3: American Psychiatric Association statement on ERA: 1974

Folder 4: Citizen’s Advisory Council on the Status of Women: undated

Folder 5: Commission on the Status of Women: 1974-1975

Folder 6: CCERA meeting minutes and newsletters: 1974-1975

Folder 7: CCERA press release: February 22, 1975

Folder 8: 1974 ERA Ratification Council Newsletter

Folder 9: Memos, press releases and newsletters from the League of Women Voters: 1973-1975

Folder 10: Lobbying and campaigning materials from League of Women Voters: 1973

Folder 11: Montana ERA materials: 1973

Folder 12: Newsletters from National Commission on the Observance of International’s Women’s Year: 1977-1978

Folder 13: North Dakota Council of Churches: 1975

Folder 14: Press releases from the CCERA Regional Coordinators: 1974-1975

Folder 15: Women in Politics workshop: September 22-23, 1973

Folder 16: Women’s Coalition: 1974-1975

Folder 17: CCERA Resource File: 1974-1975

Folder 18: Arguments for and against ERA: March 1974

Folder 19: ERA bibliography: June 1974

Folder 20: The Constitution Study Group of North Dakota Inc. Bulletin: November 21, 1976

Folder 21: Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions from Seneca Falls Convention, July 19, 1848

Folder 22: Miscellaneous articles, papers and pamphlets regarding ERA

Folder 23: Miscellaneous flyers regarding ERA

Folder 24: CCERA Guidelines for presenting information to the media

Folder 25: ERA Handbook: undated

Folder 26: Press release: ERA History in North Dakota: November 26, 1974

Folder 27: RSVPs to March 22, 1975 CCERA meeting

Folder 28: Issues of various publications by the League of Women Voters and the AFL-CIO containing articles on ERA: 1972, 1974-1975

Folder 29: Legislative Handbook for North Dakota Legislators and Employees: 1974

Folder 30: Press release: N.D. Labor Laws and the Equal Rights Amendment: January 17, 1975

Folder 31: Miscellaneous information regarding lobbying

Folder 32: Memorabilia (2 napkins): undated

Folder 33: Press release: Military Concerns Regarding the Equal Rights Amendment: December 10, 1974

Folder 34: ERA-Montana: 1975

Folder 35: Miscellaneous material from the National Organization for Women: 1974-1975

Folder 36: Press releases: May-November 1974

Folder 37: ERA pamphlets published by the North Dakota Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, 1974-1975

Folder 38: Publicity material: undated

Folder 39: Public relations material: 1975

Folder 40: Press release: Religious and Biblical Concepts of the Equal Rights Amendment: January 19, 1975

Folder 41: Reprints of the Journal of the Senate and The Journal of the House (North Dakota) which relate to ERA: January-February 1975

Folder 42: Press release: Social Security Legislation Affected by the Equal Rights Amendment: January 1, 1975

Folder 43: Speaker’s Bureau: 1975

Folder 44: How-to material relating to effective public speaking: undated

Folder 45: Press release: Support and Custody Laws Possibly Affected by Equal Right Amendment: January 15, 1975

Folder 46: Agenda, RSVP for ERA Task Force Meeting: May 11, 1974

Folder 47: Material related to Women’s Equality Day in North Dakota: August 26, 1973 and 1974

Folder 48: Correspondence from the Women’s Resource and Development Center, Grand Forks: 1975

Folder 49: Workshop registration forms: 1974

Folder 50: Miscellaneous newsletters, newspapers and periodicals related to ERA: September 1974-January 1975

Box 3

Folder 1: Pro-ERA publications, bumper stickers, and correspondence: August 1974 December 1975

Folder 2: Selection from Sydney J. Harris, People and How to Deal with Them: undated

Folder 3: Marcia Niemann, Letter to the Editor: January 16, 1975

Folder 4: Material related to Phyllis Schlafly, ERA opponent: 1974-1975

Folder 5: Judy Syfers, I Want a Wife: 1973

Folder 6: Pro-ERA advertisements and leaflets: October 1974

Folder 7: Newspaper clippings regarding sexual discrimination: 1973-1975

Folder 8: Newspaper clippings, 1973

Folder 9: Miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles regarding ERA: July-August 1974

Folder 10: Newspaper clippings: 1974

Folder 11: Newspaper clippings: 1975

Folder 12: Paula Johnson, Opposition to the ERA: the Role of American Extremists: Paper presented at the 88th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, 1980

Box 4

Folder 1: League of Women Voters, news releases: 1977

Folder 2: North Dakota Newspaper Clippings: October 26-December 29, 1974

Folder 3: North Dakota Newspaper Clippings: January 1-January 15, 1975

Folder 4: North Dakota Newspaper Clippings: January 6-January 22, 1975

Folder 5: North Dakota Newspaper Clippings: January 23-January 27, 1975

Folder 6: North Dakota Newspaper Clippings: January 28-January 31, 1975

Folder 7: North Dakota Newspaper Clippings: February 1-December 1975

Folder 8: North Dakota Newspaper Clippings: 1976-1979

Box 5

Folder 1: CCERA Correspondence: 1972-March 1975

Folder 2: CCERA Correspondence: April 1975-1977

Folder 3: CCERA Correspondence: 1978

Folder 4: CCERA Correspondence: January 1979-March 1979

Folder 5: Correspondence of George Conitz, opponent of ERA: 1974

Folder 6: Pro-ERA papers, pamphlets and publications: 1975-1978

Folder 7: Anti-ERA publications: 1975