- Collection:
- Donna Novak Coles Georgia Women's Movement Archives
- Title:
- Jordan talks about her behind-the-scenes participation in efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (1:46)
- Creator:
- Jordan, Beverly Turner, 1937-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Paulk, Janet, 1932-
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1997-02-26
- Subject:
- Feminism
Social movements
Women's studies - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- audiocassettes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Raised a Roman Catholic, Jones joined the Unitarian Universalist Church. Her political activism and interest in equal rights originated in her work experiences, as well as from the inspiration of local and national feminists and activists. In the late 1960's Jones became an early member of Atlanta NOW and was a founding member of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). In the 1970's she served in various capacities and actively participated in conferences and events held by both NOW and CLUW, and in 1974 she represented the International Typographical Union on the CLUW National Coordinating Committee. Maria Getzinger Jones continued to be active as a member of NOW and other feminist organizations, attending the 1998 and 2000 NOW conferences and taking part in the events surrounding the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Declaration. Jones passed away in August 2005.
Jones discusses NOW associates Eliza Pascal, Annabelle Walker and Patricia Ireland, as well as the anti-ERA contingent at the state Capitol. She goes on to talk about the women-centered courses offered by the Unitarian Church, and about her views on modern politics. In the second interview Jones begins by talking about her involvement with NOW: She says that "the first Atlanta NOW meeting I ever attended was because I had heard Betty Freidan from National NOW, the founding first president, had been in Atlanta and spoken on the Women's Movement and on what her involvement was and her founding the national NOW." She goes on to describe her first national conference in Los Angeles (at which the issue of lesbianism and homosexuality was broached) as well as a number of other conferences she attended. Jones discusses the split of the Atlanta NOW chapter and the emergence of the Feminist Action Alliance (FAA) and explains why she remained active with both organizations. Also involved in the Atlanta chapter of the Women's Political Caucus, she talks about their activities.
Transcript of this excerpt: JP: In your involvement, you were, if I remember -- many times taking minutes; you were dealing with orchestrating events. Can you -- from your perspective, what was your involvement? BJ: Yes, I've come to realize that I don't remember the events themselves because I was normally in the background. I was across the street from the rallies that we had, etc. But I do remember looking from the Presbyterian Church across from the [Georgia State] Capitol and seeing the rally that we had right before the Equal Rights Amendment was coming to a vote. And I remember especially Donna Coles with her baby in a stroller being there and -- with other people also, who had their children there. And I was trying to coordinate balloons being blown up, and having enough balloons, and having buttons, and registering people at the table so we knew exactly who was there at each time. And I also took minutes during the Coalition Coordinating Counsel meetings, so I was pretty aware at that time of how the Coalition was working together and could see [that] even then there were some conflicts among the organizations, but they worked themselves out. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/coles/id/2078
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/coles:2078/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Extent:
- 36 pages (two audio cassettes)
- Original Collection:
- Georgia Women's Movement Project Collection
Donna Novak Coles Georgia Women's Movement Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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