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24 de mar. de 2022 · U.S. Rep. Martha Griffiths (D-Michigan) was a central architect of women's rights as we know them today. Griffiths navigated a gauntlet of schemes and intrigue to insert "sex" into the employment nondiscrimination provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. She also spearheaded congressional passage of an Equal Rights Amendment, although the ...
Martha Griffiths was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 17th district of Michigan from 1955-1974. Born Martha Wright in 1912 in Pierce City, Missouri, she studied literature at the University of Missouri. She married Hicks Griffiths, and then earned a law degree in 1940 from the University of Michigan. Following several years in private practice,
22 de abr. de 2003 · Martha Wright Griffiths was an attorney and congresswoman from Pierce City, Missouri. Over the course of her legal and legislative career, she was a strong advocate for women’s rights and played a significant role in the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in the United States Congress.
25 de abr. de 2003 · Martha Griffiths, the irascible, independent-minded former congresswoman who was a pivotal force behind the ban on sex discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and pushed the controversial ...
Martha Griffiths was born in Pierce City, Missouri. She received her B.A. degree from The University of Missouri and her J.D. degree from The University of Michigan. She was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1941, and she was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1955. Mrs. Griffiths served in the Michigan State ...
Martha W. Griffiths, the Representative from Michigan - in Congress from 1973 through 1975
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