Letters from Sonia and Rick Johnson to Sonia' s parents, Alvin and Ida Harris, and family. The letters are written from Western Samoa, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nigeria, California, Pennsylvania, Malawi, Korea, Western Malaysia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Virginia.

Letter to Sonia from her mother about Sonia's activities and the Mormons for E.R.A.

Letters exchanged between Rick and Sonia Johnson including a number of notes, greeting cards and miscellaneous items.

Letters about Sonia and Rick's eldest son and his stay in Logan including a letter from Floyd V. Israelsen and Sonia's reply.

Letter from Sonia to her brother Mark, letters to Sonia from her sister Joyce and Aunt Grace Baugh.

Letter to and from Sonia's brother "Mike" while serving a mission for the LDS Church.

Letters from Sonia's brother Jeff to his mother.

Letters from Ina and Wayne Harris to Ida and Alvin Harris.

Letter from Martha Harris to Ida Harris

Ida Harris to her husband and son Alvin and Mark Harris.

Letter from Ida Johnson to Ida Harris about a possible visit to their children Rick and Sonia Johnson.

Letter from Mrs. Marion Smith to her aunt Ida Harris.

Letters from Lupe P. Afuvia to Ida Harris. The Harris' had Sinapi Afuvia of Samoa staying with them in Logan, Utah.

Letters to and from Sinapi Afuvia who was living with the Harris' in Logan, Utah. Some of the letters are written in Samoan.

Miscellaneous letters to Ida and Alvin Harris including one about conflicts with the LDS Church home teachers in Logan, Utah.

Letters to Sonia from Barbara Allen, Bill Billingsley, Virginia L. Carter, Peggy and Andrew Creese, Linda Daube, Audrey Grant, Edward L. Meyerson, Candice Osborn, Ron and Hazel Rigby and other personal acquaintances.

Letters from the University of Missouri, Brigham Young University, Utah State University and the University of Utah asking about deposition of Sonia Johnson's papers.

Includes a play program from an itinerary for Richard T. Johnson from 1976, and Sonia Johnson's reports on an open house at the Palo Alto LDS Church in 1972.

Copy of Sonia's partriarchial Blessing from 1960 and 1976.

Letters between Sonia Johnson and the LDS Church hierarchy about her support for the Equal Rights Amendment, her trial and appeal of her excommunication.

Correspondence and statements between Sonia Johnson, her LDS Bishop Jeffery H. Willis, and the L.D.S. Stake President Earl J. Roueche about her excommunication trial and appeal.

Correspondence, articles, and notes about a possible defense against excommunication or possible civil action against the LDS Church from Michael J. Barrett, a lawyer.

Offer from California representative McCloskey to assist with her case.

Copies of "Resolution of Civil Disputes by Mormon Ecclesiastical Courts," by Raymond T. Swenson, and the testimony concerning Reed Smoot in the Committee on Privileges and Elections.

Included are statements by Sonia Johnson, the LDS Church representative, Ralph J. Payne, Nancy Kuhn, Hazel Rigby, Loneta Murphy, William D. Payne, Mary Ann Payne, Nadine Hansen, Kris Green, and the Consortium for Utah Women in Higher Education.

Prayer by Emily Benson, statements by Loneta Murphy and an unnamed individual.

Folder for members of the press at Sonia Johnson's trial which includes copies of earlier newspaper clippings, statements, and testimony by and about Sonia Johnson and the Equal Rights Amendment.

Notes by Arlene Wood and Kathryn McKay about the church meeting attended by Sonia on December 2, 1979 the day following her excommunication.

Included is a letter from Hartman Rector, jr. to Teddie Wood in which he claims if men did not hold the priesthood they "...would problably be eaten by the famale as in the case with the black widow spider [SIC]." Also included is a letter to Sonia from Barbara B. Smith, LDS Relief Society President, and an exchange of letters about Jeffrey Willis's position with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Letters, arranged in alphabetical order, written to LDS Church leaders from her bishop to the First Presidency in support of Sonia Johnson and her position on the Equal Rights Amendment. A name list is included and filed in folder 13.

Acadiana Women's Political Caucus
Alaska Women's Resource Center
Arizonians of Faith for the Equal Rights Amendment
Association for Women in Psychology
Association of Women in Ministry
Augusta Women's Advisory Council
Awake-Worship-Action-Renewal-Education (AWARE--RLDS group)

Brouard County (Florida) Commission on the Status of Women
Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa.

Catholic Advocates for Equality
Catholics Act for ERA
Catholic Women for ERA
Center of Concern
Church of the Brethren, Women's Caucus
Coalition on Women and Religion
Common Cause
Concord United Church of Christ (Wichita, Kansas)

Includes ERArkansas, and ERAmerica Michigan.

8th Day Center for Justice
Episcopal Church groups
Epsilon Sigma Alpha International, Alpha Beta Chapter
Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Action Coalition
Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Council
Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Project (Illinois)
ERA Illinois
ERA Strike Force
Evangelical Women's Caucus (Bay Area and Michigan)

Federally Employed Women
Florida Impact
Fort Wayne Feminists

Ingham County Women's Commission (Michigan)
Interchange
Junior League of Minneapolis
Kentuchy Pro-EAR Alliance
Labor for Equal Rights Now (LERN)
Leadership Conference of Women Religious
League of Women Voters

Madison (Wisconsin) Coalition for the ERA
Missouri Equal Rights Amendment Coalition

Correspondence, 1978-1981; ERA-NOW Action Packet; ERA National Outreach, press releases, pamphlets, information, 1977-1981

Includes some Utah material

National Assembly of Women Religious
National Coalition of American Nuns
National Council of Churches
National Women's Party
Network (Catholic nuns' group)
Nevadans for ERA
North Miami Beach Commission on the Status of Women

OK-ERA (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Oklahoma Governor's Commission on the Status of Women
Oklahomans for the Equal Righs Amendment
Oklahoma Homemakers for the ERA
Older women's Liberation

Planned Parenthood-Louisville
Presbyterian Church groups
People of Faith for the ERA
President's Advisory Committee for Women
Prince George's County Commission for Women

Sacramento Valley Ecumenical Women
Santa Clara County Commission on the Status of Women (California)
Sisters of Divine Providence (Kentucky)
Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace (Washington, D. C.)
South Texas Women's Forum
Tacoma Dominican Sisters Consensus Group 2
Thurston County Ministries in Higher Education (Washington)

Unitarian Church groups
United Methodist Church groups
United Teachers of Los Angeles
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities (Minnesota)
Unity (Texas)
Utah Order of Women Legislators

Virginia Equal Rights Amendment Ratification
Council
Virginians for the Equal Rights Amendment-Political Action Committee
Virginia Polytechnic Institute Women's Network
Virginia Religious Committee for ERA

National materials, 1979-1981; and material arranged alphabetically by state, 1979-1980

Washington Equal Rights Amendment Coalition
Women in Communications, Inc.
Women and Religion Task Force in Kansas City
Women for Sobriety, Washington Group
Women's Issues Forum, Glendale, Arizona
Women Space (Ohio)
Women's Resources for Action (Washington, D. C.)
Women's Campaign Fund
Women's Caucus for Art/Coalition of Women's Art Organizations
Women's Center of Eastern Montgomery County (Pennsylvania)
Women's Center, University of Tennessee
Women's Information Network (Missouri)
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Women's Ordination Conference of Rhode Island
The Women's Room and Resource Center (Virginia)

Testimony before Senate committee by Rugh Bader Ginsburg, Judith Hertz and Mildred Jeffrey in 1978 statements by Eleanor Smeal, Jan Tyler, and Carol Caston; a memorandum of law prepared by Lippman and Hart; and various fact sheets on the proposed ratification time and proposal to allow recision of approval of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Judge Callister, a high ranking LDS Church leader was to sit on the case to decide if the recision of ratification of a constitutional amendment, in this case the Equal Rights Amendment, was legal in the Federal District Court for the District of Idaho. An attempt was made to disqualify him based on his authority in a church so vocal against the ERA Included here are copies of the disqualification motions and orders, 1979-1981; information sheets, press releases and newspaper clippings, 1979-1980; and the NOW Press Kit.

Statements supporting ERA including rebuttals to Senator Sam Ervin's Minority Report in relation to the Yale Law Journal report on ERA.

Includes speeches, statements and fact sheets.

Reports made by the National Organization for Women.

Pamphlets, brochures and flyers in favor of ERA.

Includes flyers and newsletters from the Eagle Forum and STOP ERA, statements of Senators Sam Ervin and Orrin G. Hatch, a transcript of the Utah State Senate discussion of the Equal Rights Amendment Rejection Resolution in 1979, and information on the Republican and Democratic Parties' attitudes toward the Equal Rights Amendment.

Information sent by Lou Ann Stoker Dickson about anti-ERA activities carried on in the LDS Churches in Tempe, Arizona, and news-clippings about Mormons in Arizona.

Information and financial records on FACT-PAC (Families Are Concerned Today-Political Action Committee), its backing by LDS Church members, and its activities.

Information, correspondence, flyers about the Missouri Citizen's Council and its connection with the LDS Church.

Letters, articles, and information on the LDS Church's influence on Nevada politics from Renee and Sheldon Rampton, including Renee Rampton's paper "The Role of the Mormon Church in the 1978 Nevada Election."

Articles, statements, and other information on Citizen's Quest for Quality Government, its activities in Nevada, and its connection with the LDS Church.

Clippings, articles, and summary statements on the connection of Nevada Mormons and polictics including materials on Mormons and the ERA, The Mormon Voting Bloc, Beehive, and LDS Church publication and its political role; Ezra Taft Benson; the Conservative Caucus; Karen Hays Campaign; the Holt Campaign; International Women's Year in Nevada; Douglas Wallace; and other miscellaneous items.

Includes correspondence, articles and other information on the LDS Citizen's Coalition, including a typed transcript of the organizational meeting, and much about the coalition's involvement in Virginia politics in opposition to ERA Also included is a pamphlet and flyers on the "Equality Yes! ERA No!" link between the Virginia LDS Citizens Coalition and Phyllis Schlafly's STOP ERA movement, and some miscellaneous information.

Information about LDS Church activities against the ERA from California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Information on LDS Church political activities.

Sets of notes made by Sonia Johnson and by Jan Tyler on a meeting between Sonia Johnson and Jan Tyler and two members of the LDS General Conference October 3, 1981, made by Gayle Brooks Freeman.

Letters, press releases, interviews, speeches and other statements by church leaders about the Equal Rights Amendment and the role of women in society.

Correspondence and information concerning the controversy over a girls' LDS primary lesson about honoring the priesthood.

Information Statements, articles, and other information about the LDS Church and its role in opposition to the ERA by the Mormons for ERA group.

Paper by Sally Mercurio Pusill titled "Mormon Children's Present Sex and Future Sex-Role Preferences."

Including a number of articles by Loneta Murphy, articles pro and anti-ERA, and newspaper clippings from 1975-1981 and undated.
LDS Church

Women

Includes Sonia Johnson's travel voucher and testimony, a typed transcript of the hearing, a statement by Sonia Johnson about how she became involved which is partly a journal of events following the testimony, and a supportive statement by Hazel Rigby.

Copies of letters written by Sonia Johnson or other members of the Mormons for ERA central organization about the groups activities, opinions, and business.

Letters to state and national legislators from individuals and the Mormons for ERA group, 1978-1979; response from national legislators, 1978-1979; correspondence with the executive branch, 1978-1980; response from Virginia legislators and other state legislators, 1978-1979; and correspondence with representatives of the written and televised media, 1979-1981, and undated.

Speeches and statements about Mormons for ERA by Jan L. Tyler, Christine Arlene Chapman, James E. Chapman, Shirlie Kaplan, Sheldon Rampton, and Cheryl L. Dalton. Also included are some speeches with no name given.

Permits for demonstrations on the United States Capitol grounds given to the Mormons for ERA by the United States Capitol Police Board.

Materials relating to the arrest of Sonia Johnson and twenty other people for chaining themselves to the gates of the L. D. S. Temple in Bellevue. Also included is material about the personal injury suit filed by Marty La-Brasse against the church members in charge of the temple. Included are letters, legal papers, name lists, news letters, press releases, and newspaper clippings.

Information, including the model program for sending people door-to-door to speak for the ERA in Utah in the same way LDS Church missionaries operate.

Press releases, newsletters, flyers.

Press releases, newsletters, statements, flyers

Invitation to join, press release, newspaper story.
Temporarily Restricted.

Correspondence, minutes, memoranda.

ERA supporters contact list, media representatives.

Copies of newsletters, articles for the newsletter, and name lists.

Pro-ERA pamphlets a document to encourage ratification, and Anti-Mormon pamphlets.

Included are flyers, information on Mormons for ERA and a number of feminist songs and poems.

Copy of the Exponent II, Vol, III, No. 1, September 1976, a newspaper for Mormon Women.

Alphabetical list of LDS, Pro-ERA Correspondents from boxes 11, 12 and 13.

List of speaking engagements accepted.

Correspondence, flyers, information regarding Sonia Johnson's personal appearances.

Information and flyers on Sonia Johnson's availability as a speaker through an organization.

Correspondence and information about Sonia Johnson's attendance at this conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Speech given on a panel, on the 10th of February 1982. ERA Referendum Strategies, Washington Institute for Women in Politics, Mt. Vernon College, Washington, D. C.

Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Meetings, September 1, 1979, New York City; and a summary of the paper.

Speech given at the Utah Women's Conference, October 1979. Included are notes and drafts of the speech.

Includes Sonia Johnson's testimony to the Senate Subcommittee in 1978,a speech of the National Organization for Women's Religious Panel in 1978; comments at a "Labor for Equal Rights Now" press conference, 1979; comments at the ERAmerica strategy session, 1979; a speech at the Montana NOW state conference, 1970; a speech at the Alice Louise Reynolds Women's Forum in Provo, Utah in 1979; and some other comments and remarks.

Transcripts of interviews of Sonia Johnson; Barbara B. Smith, LDS Relief Society President; and Beverly Campbell of the monetary reward on moral grounds. Included is a letter from Christie Hefner.

No chapter numbers, typed with numerous revisions and inserts.

Chapters 1-15, typed with revisions and additions.

Chapters 1-14, photocopy of typescript with revisions and additions.

Correspondence, including editor notes and comments, from Doubleday about the publication of From Housewife to Heretic.

Transcripts of taped material for use in the book with comments by Arlene Wood.

Typescript.

Correspondence between Jabusch and Sonia Johnson about his article and a copy of the paper he presented to the Speech Communication Association Convention in 1980 titled "Sonia Johnson and the Mormons for ERA Campaign."

Letters between Sonia Johnson, Barbara Butler, Susan A. Grade, Sonia Johnson's lawyer, and others concerning the rights to Sonia's story.

Clippings and information about this politically right wing, moral-majority rally and convention in Dallas, Texas 21-22 August 1980. (See also: Speaking Engagements, about Sonia Johnson's speech in Dallas on August 24, 1980.)

Articles, statements and pamphlets by and about politically right wing and "Moral Majority" groups.

Includes a cartoon on wage discrimination and an article about resistance movements.

Small sampling of envelopes from letters mailed to Sonia Johnson which contain a number of editorial comments, or odd or incomplete addresses which still reached her.