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Women on The Move: Partial Checklist of the Traveling Exhibition of Photographs by Diana Mara Henry

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Image - All from the First National Women’s Conference, Houston, 1977	Description Image size approx 6”x9”
	“Last Mile of First National Women’s Conference” Torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall in Houston, November, 1977. Left to right, front row: Billie Jean King, Susan B. Anthony, Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Diana Mara Henry’s most famous and published image.
	A delegate to the conference and member of NOW refers to Robert’s Rules of Order as she asks a question of the Chair during floor debate.
	Delegates waving bras inscribed with the words “We Didn’t Burn Them” in an attempt to correct some historic misinformation, as they demonstrate in favor of the ERA plank of the National Plan of Action.
	Hands clasped, a delegate from New York State listens attentively from her wheelchair to the debate on the floor of the convention.
	Group of Delegates, arms around each others’ shoulders, celebrating passage of the sexual preference resolution.
	Delegates with boaters
	Agnes Dill, delegate of the Isleta Laguna tribe.
	Mandy Stellman, Delegate from Wisconsin, blows the rape whistle that is her calling card (she is a lawyer) and applauds the passage of a part of the plan of action - which included support of an Equal Rights Amendment, freedom of choice on abortion, support for day care, and banning of discrimination based on sexual preference.
	Alice Bibeau (left), homemaker, grandmother, and community activist, and Colleen Wong, college student, 17 years old, both California delegates.
	Gloria Steinem being watched on monitor as she speaks on stage at the First National Women’s Conference
	Anne Saulnier of Ohio speaking at podium during the Fourth Plenary session at the First National Women's Conference. At right is an interpreter for the hearing-impaired.
	Delegate with “Politics is My Bag” bag; "GOP ERA button" half-hidden, and "I am Pro-Plan" sticker.
	Jean Westwood of Utah, former Chair of the National Democratic Party and a delegate, speaks from a microphone on the floor of the convention. Coretta Scott King, second from left, listens attentively.
	Barbara Jordan, US Congresswoman from Texas, signing autographs after giving the keynote address.
	Two farm women delegates staying late at the Convention Hall after the second day’s proceedings to draft an additional plank for consideration in the National Plan of Action.
	Betty Ford, member of the President’s Commission on International Women’s Year, applauds at the opening of the Conference.
	The late Margaret “Midge” Costanza, Presidential Assistant, speaks at lecture series outside the main hall of the convention, Houston, 1977
	Mary Crisp, then Co-Chair of the Republican National Committee and later President of NARAL, a delegate from Arizona, follows the proceedings.
	Elizabeth Holtzman, U.S. Representative of New York, delegate, with her arms crossed in her lap.
	Pat Kery, organizer of torch relay across U.S. from Seneca Falls to Houston, in front of the First National Women’s Conference podium, Houston, 1977. She is displaying scroll bearing the statement written by Maya Angelou, “To Form a More Perfect Union” and signed by First Ladies and delegates as well as thousands along torch relay route.
	High Chief Pulu Peneueta of Pago Pago, a delegate from American Samoa.
	Liz Carpenter, Commissioner of the President’s Commission on International Women’s Year, with former commissioner Ellen Groves Kirby at left.
	C. Dolores Tucker, Secretary of State of Pennsylvania and delegate at large, at microphone, objecting to seating of all-white delegation from Mississippi.
	Congresswoman Barbara Jordan applauded by Bella Abzug, Rosalyn Carter and Betty Ford after her keynote address at the First National Women’s Conference, Houston, 1977
	Clara McLaughlin, author of The Black Parents’ Handbook, and her daughter Rinette at the Conference.
	Susan B. Anthony, grand-niece of the 19th-century pioneer for woman’s suffrage, quotes her great-aunt’s words “Failure is Impossible” as she “calls the question” on the Equal Rights / ERA plank of the National Plan of Action, which was voted on and passed shortly thereafter.
	A delegate expresses her displeasure with the passage of a plank on freedom of sexual preference by raising a home-made sign that reads: “Keep ‘em in the closet” at First National Women's Conference, Houston, 1977.
	Coretta Scott King, member of the President’s Commission on the Observance on International Women’s Year / IWY, applauds Barbara Jordan’s keynote address.
	Phyllis Schlafly, Head of the Stop-ERA movement, holds a press conference in opposition to the First National Women's Conference, Houston, 1977.
	Barbara Jordan. U.S. Representative from Texas, delivering the keynote address at the First National Women’s Conference, Houston, 1977.
	Gloria Steinem National Commissioner of the President's Commission on International Women's Year, is interviewed at the conclusion of the First National Women's Conference, Houston, 1977, by a reporter with a similar style.
	A delegate with camera considers the scene at the Conference.
	A delegate to the First National Women's Conference, Houston, 1977, writes in her diary during a debate.
	FNWC Puerto Rican Delegate wearing the delegation’s straw hat at the First National Women’s Conference, Houston, 1977.
	Celebration at the finale of the First National Women’s Conference, Houston, 1977, seen from the stage. Signer for the deaf looks on at right
	Outside the First National Women’s Conference, a woman wears the message “Alcoholism is a woman’s issue” on a tee-shirt.
	At the NASA booth (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) at the Albert Thomas Convention Center, a visitor is photographed with her head through a screen painted with astronaut outfit and scene from space.
	Delegate Freddie Groomes
	Three Commissioners including Commissioner Elizabeth Athanasakos (left) and former Commissioner Gilda Bojorquez Cjurich listen attentively to proceedings at the First National Women's Conference, Houston, 1977.
	Gloria Scott, Commissioner of the President's Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year and National President of the Girl Scouts of America, opens the proceedings of the Conference. She is raising the gavel used during the Women's Rights Convention of 1848 by Susan B. Anthony. (The gavel was loaned for the occasion by Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology, Washington, D.C.
	One of the anti-ERA, anti-abortion, anti-sexual preference delegates wearing the groups “Majority” identifier.
	A delegate at First National Women's Conference, Houston, 1977, wearing a National Women’s Political Caucus button and ribbons reading “Family” and “ERA” smiles as she looks up from her needlepoint.
	Joan Gubbins, leader of the “Majority” delegates, taking a stand on the floor of the convention against the National Plan of Action.
	Many Houston policewomen volunteered for guard duty at the Conference.+
	Grey Panther advocate delegate Betty Hamburger, 73, of Maryland, whose hard hat reads: Pro God, Pro-family, Pro-ERA.” She said: “What we [older people] want most is life with dignity and respect and an income on which we can live without having to hold out our hands and beg.”
	Delegate wearing an “I am pro-Plan” button raises her fist in assent during debate
	Delegate Delthia Akiu wearing a “Majority” ribbon representing the anti-ERA sentiment and opposition to other planks of the National Plan of Action.
	Lavishly coiffed delegate wearing a “Viva La Mujer” button.

A delegate to the conference and member of NOW refers to Robert’s Rules of Order as she asks a question of the Chair during floor debate.

Delegates waving bras inscribed with the words “We Didn’t Burn Them” in an attempt to correct some historic misinformation, as they demonstrate in favor of the ERA plank of the National Plan of Action.

Hands clasped, a delegate from New York State listens attentively from her wheelchair to the debate on the floor of the convention.

Group of Delegates, arms around each others’ shoulders, celebrating passage of the sexual preference resolution.

Delegates with boaters

Agnes Dill, delegate of the Isleta Laguna tribe.

Alice Bibeau (left), homemaker, grandmother, and community activist, and Colleen Wong, college student, 17 years old, both California delegates.

Gloria Steinem being watched on monitor as she speaks on stage at the First National Women’s Conference

Barbara Jordan, US Congresswoman from Texas, signing autographs after giving the keynote address.

Two farm women delegates staying late at the Convention Hall after the second day’s proceedings to draft an additional plank for consideration in the National Plan of Action.

Betty Ford, member of the President’s Commission on International Women’s Year, applauds at the opening of the Conference.

The late Margaret “Midge” Costanza, Presidential Assistant, speaks at lecture series outside the main hall of the convention, Houston, 1977

Mary Crisp, then Co-Chair of the Republican National Committee and later President of NARAL, a delegate from Arizona, follows the proceedings.

Elizabeth Holtzman, U.S. Representative of New York, delegate, with her arms crossed in her lap.

Liz Carpenter, Commissioner of the President’s Commission on International Women’s Year, with former commissioner Ellen Groves Kirby at left.

C. Dolores Tucker, Secretary of State of Pennsylvania and delegate at large, at microphone, objecting to seating of all-white delegation from Mississippi.

Congresswoman Barbara Jordan applauded by Bella Abzug, Rosalyn Carter and Betty Ford after her keynote address at the First National Women’s Conference, Houston, 1977

Clara McLaughlin, author of The Black Parents’ Handbook, and her daughter Rinette at the Conference.

Susan B. Anthony, grand-niece of the 19th-century pioneer for woman’s suffrage, quotes her great-aunt’s words “Failure is Impossible” as she “calls the question” on the Equal Rights / ERA plank of the National Plan of Action, which was voted on and passed shortly thereafter.

Barbara Jordan. U.S. Representative from Texas, delivering the keynote address at the First National Women’s Conference, Houston, 1977.

Gloria Steinem National Commissioner of the President's Commission on International Women's Year, is interviewed at the conclusion of the First National Women's Conference, Houston, 1977, by a reporter with a similar style.

A delegate with camera considers the scene at the Conference.

A delegate to the First National Women's Conference, Houston, 1977, writes in her diary during a debate.

FNWC Puerto Rican Delegate wearing the delegation’s straw hat at the First National Women’s Conference, Houston, 1977.

Celebration at the finale of the First National Women’s Conference, Houston, 1977, seen from the stage. Signer for the deaf looks on at right

Outside the First National Women’s Conference, a woman wears the message “Alcoholism is a woman’s issue” on a tee-shirt.

At the NASA booth (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) at the Albert Thomas Convention Center, a visitor is photographed with her head through a screen painted with astronaut outfit and scene from space.