Famous Women. From The WPA Film Library Speeches Collection

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I am glad to be here in this International Year of the Woman on the eve of the bicentennial when government of, by, and for the people that were men is becoming of, by, and for the people that are also women. -Betty Friedan Items in this compilation include, * Eleanor Roosevelt's address to the 1940 Democratic National Convention, given on 7/18/40 * Speeches given at the Women's Centennial Congress, held in 1940 at the Astor Hotel in New York City * A speech made by Betty Ford on 10/25/75 at an International Women's Year conference in Cleveland * Betty Friedan's "New Yes" speech, made in 1975 * Senator Carol Moseley Braun's speech, given on 7/22/93, against providing a patent to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the use of the Confederate flag * And more.

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50 min

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Date of Publication

[2012], c1995

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