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Coming Together
The National Women's Conference was the first chance for members to meet across state delegations. Women of color worked in special evening caucuses to ensure that their concerns, including poverty, Native American tribal rights, language barriers, involuntary sterilization, and immigration, would be heard. They produced a stronger version of the brief "minority plank" proposed by the conference leadership and demanded attention to the double burden of racial and gender discrimination. It passed with strong support. |