Chapter 26 Visions of Freedom

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Conservative Phyllis Schlafly campaigning against the Equal Rights Amendment at the Illinois State Capitol in 1978

Credits: Bettmann/Corbis

  1. What does the image suggest about conflicting ideas of the role of women in American society in the wake of the social and political divisions created by the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s?
  2. Why do opponents claim that the proposed amendment was a “blow” against American families?
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