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Doris Conant

April 28, 1925 – June 22, 2017

“The reason you haven’t seen an organization like ERA Illinois before is because no one dreamed, a few years ago, that anyone would be opposed to equal rights for women. It was so clearly, so obviously something whose time had come that we really weren’t prepared for opposition.” –  Doris Conant, President of ERA Illinois about combating Stop-ERA, September 1976

Political activist, feminist, sculptor, civic worker, real estate developer, philanthropist. President of ERA Illinois. A founding member of the Chicago Foundation for Women.