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Letter to Senator Ashurst in Support of the Equal Rights Amendment

  • 2/10/1938
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Carol Taylor Bogardus (“Mrs. EW”) sent this letter to Senator Henry F. Ashurst. She urges him to support the Equal Rights Amendment and to vote to report it from the Judiciary Committee to the full Senate so that it may be considered by the Senate in the current session.

This document was digitized by teachers in our Primarily Teaching 2017 summer workshop in Washington, D.C.

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This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. Senate.

National Archives Identifier: 74884208

Full Citation: Letter from Carol Taylor Bogardus to Senator Henry F. Ashurst from Carol Taylor Bogardus (Mrs. EW) in Support of the Equal Rights Amendment; 2/10/1938; Petitions and Memorials Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary during the 75th Congress; (SEN64A-K9); Committee Papers, 1816 – 2011; Records of the U.S. Senate, Record Group 46; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/ashurst-bogardus-era/, April 6, 2026]

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