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There was no bowling alley and there was no library in Plains, Georgia. In her book, "First Lady from Plains," Rosalynn Carter reflects on her childhood and her time at the White House. Times were tough, explained Carter, but she never knew they were poor. Carter went on numerous radio interviews in the hopes that the public would learn who her husband was.
Interviewing Equal Rights Amendment activists, Marianne Bell and Shirley Wallace, who were fasting as a political statement, and Illinois state representative and outspoken advocate of ERA, Susan Cantania.
Discussing women in American society, politics, economics, social ethics and the educational system with the President of Smith College, Jill Conway.
Discussing the Equal Rights Amendment with Illinois Representative Susan Catania and political activists Clara Day and Margaret Klimkowski.
Child labor laws, the eight hour work day, pensions, school reform, and low income housing are only some of the issues taken up by The League of Women Voters, as explained by Edna Pardo, Eleanor Revell and Beth Kink. Many believed theirs was solely a service organization to gain more women voters. The League of Women Voters is a good training ground for future women politicians, too.