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Extension of the time limit for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment

Description: Transcript of a speech that Barabara Jordan delivered to the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights House Committee on the Judiciary. The speech calls for an extension of the time limit for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, arguing for its importance and a lack of constitutionally decreed deadlines for ratification.
Date: May 18, 1978
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Partner: Texas Southern University

[Proclamation by the Governor of the State of Texas: 41-1158]

Description: Proclamation by the Governor of the State of Texas, John Connally, explaining his vetoing of House Bill 786. Also included is a letter from Crawford C. Martin, Attorney General of Texas, to John Connally, offering his opinion about the constitutionality of HB 786.
Date: June 18, 1967
Creator: Connally, John
Partner: Texas Southern University
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