Pratt talks about the accomplishments of the Women's Movement (2:20)
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Janette B. Pratt was born in Bury, Lancashire, England in 1947. While attending London University, she received a LLB and LLM degree as well as becoming a certified mediator. During the 1960s, Pratt was involved in a number of protests and demonstrations. She moved to Atlanta in 1974 and soon after both Pratt and her husband joined Atlanta NOW. Pratt served as newsletter editor and secretary of the Atlanta NOW chapter. Today, Pratt serves as Administrative Professor for field placement at Emory Law School.Pratt talks about her working class childhood and youth in Lancashire, England. An only child, born late in her parents' marriage, she remembers post-WWII rationing and bomb damage. She attended the London School of Economics which she says was considered "England's Berkeley", because of its radical reputation. She chose to study law because "nobody had -- in my little world -- had ever heard of a woman doing that." "It was an act of rebellion, really." After graduation, Pratt recounts that she came to the United States to attend graduate school, and then went on to teach, first in Chicago (where she married one of her students) and then in Boston. She came to Atlanta when her husband was offered a job. Encouraged by her feminist mother in law, Pratt joined the Atlanta chapter of NOW, and volunteered to edit the organization's newsletter. She describes her trips to national NOW conferences, and the issues that were important to her, such as exclusion of women from all-male clubs....
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Durand, Joyce Jenkins, 1939
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