Letter to House Judiciary Committee from the Dean of Douglass College

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Dean Margery Somers Foster sent this letter to Congress asking if the Equal Rights Amendment would mean that public, single-sex colleges could no longer exist, and if such colleges would have to allow both male and female students.

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Citation

This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives.

National Archives Identifier: 74884290

Full Citation: Letter to House Judiciary Committee from the Dean of Douglass College and excerpt of Report No. 92-689; 10/19/1972; Legislative Bill Files of the Committee on the Judiciary for the 92nd Congress; Committee Papers, 1813 – 2011; Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Record Group 233; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/house-judiciary-douglass-college/, April 5, 2026]

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