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Woman speaks on 'Pro-Plan' to be laid for women of America at a meeting in Houston Texas.

'We are all Pro-Plan written on the podium. Woman speaks on 'Pro-Plan' caucus for women of America at a National Women's Conference meeting in Houston Texas, focused on equal rights for women, women's issues, and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Women present at the meeting vote by raising their hands in favor of the proposed motion. The motion is carried for those in favor of the motion.

Date: 1977, November 18
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029736
Child Care Plan proposed at the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas.

Commissioner of district, Columbia, Audrey Colom makes her speech at the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas (focused on women's issues, women's rights, and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment). She explains the proposed Child Care Plan to the women attendees. Other women delegates present at the meeting speak in favor of the proposed child care plan. Women vote against the Substitute Motion and in favor of the Child Care Plan, part of a platform for equal rights for women.

Date: 1977, November 18
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029737
Insurance Resolution adopted at the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas, focused on equal rights for women.

Commissioner of California, Cecilia Burciaga makes her speech at the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas. She proposes the adoption of Resolution for Insurance. Majority of the women delegates present at the meeting speak in favor of the proposed resolution. 'Resolution for Insurance' adopted. American women cheer. (Conference was focused on women's issues and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.)

Date: 1977, November 18
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029740
Women delegates vote in favor of the resolution for African American women at the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas

Women delegates, including Coretta Scott King, and future congresswoman Maxine Waters, speak on several issues dealing with equal rights for women, at the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas, which was focused on various women's issues and the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Several proposals being put forward by women delegates. Billie Masters speaks on behalf of Native American Women and Alaskan native women, and advocates for tribal rights, tribal sovereignty, and the importance of honoring existing treaties. Mariko Tse speaks regarding the needs of Asian-Pacific American women, including challenges from cultural and language barriers, sweatshop working conditions, and immigration processing issues. Sandra Serrano Sewell (President of Comision Feminil Mexicana Nacional) speaks out against the deportation of mothers of American born children. Both Maxine Waters and Coretta Scott King speak about the needs of black women of America, including quality education and employment for black American women. Women delegates vote in favor of the Resolution for black American women. Women cheer.

Date: 1977, November 18
Duration: 5 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029744
Phyllis Schlafly makes her speech condemning the National Women's Conference held in Houston, Texas.

A meeting in Texas to protest the National Women's Conference held in Houston, Texas. Phyllis Schlafly National Chairwoman of Stop Equal Rights Amendment makes her speech. She differentiates between their meeting and the National Women's Conference being held in Houston. She speaks on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and warns that the ERA will allow homosexuals to marry, teach in schools, and adopt children. Men and women at the meeting have 'STOP ERA' signs and logos with them. A white woman and an African American woman raise bible books in the air and wave them as the attendees cheer during Schlafly's speech.

Date: 1977, November 18
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029746
North Platte canteen workers offer African American soldiers fruits at a railway station in North Platte, Nebraska.

North Platte canteen workers offer African American soldiers fruits at train window and train steps at a station in North Platte, Nebraska. Sign on railroad coach reads 'Back Alive in 45'. Girls wave to soldiers as the train leaves the station. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, August 4
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029762