Description

The Lucy Hargrett Draper U.S. Equal Rights Amendment (1921-1982) Research Collection is comprised of primary and secondary materials of all formats relating to efforts and activities at state, regional and national levels, to secure the passage of an equal rights amendment for women. The core of the collection is the personal library of Lucy Hargrett Draper, comprising of more than 160 monographs and periodicals. Also included are artifacts and other printed materials that have been donated and purchased with funds from the Lucy Hargrett Draper Endowment. The collection, which is continually growing, complements the Donna Novak Coles Georgia Women's Movement Archives.Lucy Hargrett Draper was born on a South Georgia Wayne County farm in 1941, the eldest of four daughters and the first in her mother's family to graduate from college. Her advanced degrees in history, education and law were applied to a half-century of advocacy on behalf of educational, economic and legal equality for women. Draper has been actively involved with a number of women's rights organizations: She founded the Atlanta N.O.W. Speaker's Bureau (1971-1973), West Point N.O.W. at the U.S. Military Academy (1973-1976), Kansas W.E.A.L. (1977), Georgia W.E.A.L. (1978), the Georgia Coalition for the Rights of Women (1996), and the Democratic Women's Council. She was also an active member of ERA Georgia, Inc. (late 1970s-1982). Draper co-authored the Georgia Women's Bill of Rights and led numerous conferences, demonstrations, marches and parades on behalf of women's equality and civil rights. She volunteered to teach in the all-minority school system during...

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Georgia State University

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Digital Library of Georgia