 | United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - 1972 - 722 lapas
...the suffragettes. Sojourner Truth, a Detroit woman, was the greatest of all of these. Mr. Chairman, a vote against this amendment today by a white man...against his wife, or his widow, or his daughter, or his sister. If we are trying to establish equality in jobs, I am for it, but I am for making white women... | |
 | Deborah G. Felder - 1999 - 390 lapas
...women. As Martha W. Griffiths of Michigan, the leader of the fight for the Smith amendment, declared: "A vote against this amendment today by a white man...against his wife, or his widow, or his daughter, or his sister." She insisted that it "would be incredible to me that white men would be willing to place white... | |
 | Lynne Olson - 2001 - 472 lapas
...their own prejudice to permit ex-slaves to vote, but not their own white wives. . . . Mr. Chairman, a vote against this amendment today by a white man...against his wife, or his widow, or his daughter, or his sister." Griffiths' views pitting white women against blacks were echoed by Southern male conservatives.... | |
 | Dorothy Sue Cobble - 2004 - 342 lapas
...President that white women will be last at the hiring gate." Her speech closed with a final racial appeal: "a vote against this amendment today by a white man...against his wife, or his widow, or his daughter, or his sister."143 Midway through the debate, Catherine Dean May read a letter from NWP Chair Miller expressing... | |
 | Rebecca E Zietlow - 2006 - 279 lapas
...rights, and down at the bottom of the list is going to be a white woman with no rights at all. ... A vote against this amendment today by a white man...against his wife, or his widow, or his daughter, or his sister.87 Other supporters of the bill, including Representatives Manny Celler, Bill McCulloch, and... | |
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. . .a vote against this amendment today by a white man is a vote against his wife, or his widow, or his daughter, or his sister. 