Word: armbands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates who had split bitterly on other issues. Exulted Liz Carpenter, leader of ERAmerica, the group spearheading the amendment ratification drive: "We can no longer be accused of being a middle-class white women's cause." New Yorker Letty Cottin Pogrebin recalled seeing a black delegate wearing an orange armband in support of lesbian rights, a button favoring abortion and a pro-ERA button. Originally, the delegate had worn only one insignia, that backing the ERA. Said Pogrebin: "She was the best example of the progress of those three days in Houston...
...more." A New York man wrote that Bryan's articles had "penetrated the confusion and shame which prevented me from thinking about the Indochina War." A woman from Pennsylvania wanted to write the Mullens; she explained that she had lost her job in part because she wore a black armband to work to protest against the war. Another woman from Montpelier, Vermont, wrote simply, "Thank you for the Mullen's story," as if the rage and frustration and sadness were understood, without the need for words...
...since Harvard is unwilling to meet its responsibility, we support today's armband demonstration calling for 1:1 admissions. Only after the numbers of men and women are equalized at the college will its accessibility be truly equal. Until that time, equal access is just another euphemism for inequality...
Bunting said she wore a white armband at the last commencement she attended here to signify her support for equal access, which, she said, was one of the things she had hope for most while she was here...
...When Kim Agnew, then 13, tried to wear a moratorium armband during antiwar demonstrations in 1969, what happened...