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League of Women Voters/Spokane Area Education Fund
Eastern Washington ERA Research Project

Debating Equal Rights in Eastern Washington: A Scholarly Study
By Nancy Driscol Engle, Ph.D.

Sponsored in Part by the Washington Women's History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society with special thanks to Marion Moos, a longtime activist, Ann Murphy and the Spokane League of Women Voters.

The paper explores the sentiments for and against the ERA in the counties of Spokane, Kittitas, Benton and Franklin, during two dates deemed most likely to show heightened waves of activism on behalf of, as well as against, the ERA.

Seattle General Hospital Nursery.

Three suffragists post signs advocating women's suffrage on the side of a low wood structure in Seattle. Asahel Curtis took this photogrpah for the Washington Equal Suffrage Association.

Ten raspberry pickers, all women, stand in a row at the edge of a raspberry field in Western Washington.

Three American Red Cross women wearing heavy coats and Red Cross caps, offer bottles of milk and doughnuts from baskets to rows of African American soldiers returning to Fort Lewis at the close of World War II. Photo by Turner Richards, Tacoma, WA.