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Edee Greene Clip
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Florida Media Coverage of the Equal Rights Amendment
I’ve received a revise and resubmit on my article about Florida newspaper’s coverage of the Equal Rights Amendment and Sen. Lori Wilson. Sen. Wilson was the only woman in the state senate at the time and was the sponsor of the E.R.A. (She was also the wife of Gannett executive Al Neuharth at the time.) I’m working on the revisions now. Many women’s page journalists supported the ERA. But, in the 1970s, when the final states needed to be ratified, the sections were eliminated. The new sections were often headed by men. For example, Marjorie Paxson lost her job twice.
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Vera Glaser obituary
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Carol Sutton reference
There’s an article in the Louisville Courier-Journal today about a restaurant closing that features a reference to Carol Sutton:“For women and African Americans, however, it was another story. Mazzoni’s desegregated earlier than other restaurants, but like the rest of Louisville it was in its earlier days for whites only. And women, by the way, didn’t gain the right to drink at Louisville’s bars until the early 1970s. I well remember accompanying a group of women from the newspaper, including the legendary editor Carol Sutton, to Mazzoni’s at noon after the Board of Aldermen approved the ordinance allowing women to stand at the bar and drink like men. Carol took pleasure…
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Florida Editor Edee Greene
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