ERA is a Turkey
date: label: date made
content: 1977
label: used date
content: November 20, 1977
notes: label: Description
content: Single-sided printed poster; "ERA IS A TURKEY"; white background; red text; This slogan was used on paper buttons worn by delegates at the 1977 National Women’s Conference who opposed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Signs with the same slogan were used by women in anti-ERA demonstrations including one in 1978 in Moorhead, Minnesota. Demonstrators hoped to persuade members attending the American Lutheran Church convention to vote against supporting the ERA.
place: label: used
content: United States: Texas, Houston
topic: label: general subject association
content: History, Women's, Equal Rights
label: referenced
content: Equal Rights Amendment
label: general subject association
content: Women's History
label: general subject association
content: Women's History
label: general subject association
content: Anti-abortion
label: general subject association
content: Demonstrations
label: general subject association
content: Protest and Civil Disobedience
label: related event
content: International Womens Year National Conference
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection
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content: Princeton Posters
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Nancy L. MacGibbon and Randy Mueller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0051.02
label: accession number
content: 1981.0051
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0051.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 in x 28 in; 55.88 cm x 71.12 cm