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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: MARY LYNN MYERSadmin2019-09-27T08:51:52-04:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Mary Lynn Myers

A  leader in the mainstream of the Movement, Mary Lynn sought to focus efforts and energy toward actions that would make a meaningful difference in the lives of everyday women.

Federally Employed Women – Founder of the Chicago Chapter and President, National Board. National Organization for Women: Chicago chapter, National Board. National Finance Vice President, South Dakota State Coordinator (1972-74), NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund Board and Treasurer. Member, SD Delegation to the 1977 National Women’s Conference, Houston. Member of the National Women’s Political Caucus and NARAL. Director, South Dakota Division of Human Rights. National Board of Girl Scouts of the USA . World Board of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.

September 2019

Photo 1. Mary Lynn Myers, candidate for NOW President, at NOW conference in Philadelphia in 1975 with her Mom, Lona Crandall, the founding President of the Sioux Falls Chapter of NOW in 1971 [Photo by Bettye Lane]. Photo 2. Mary Lynn speaking as President of Federally Employed Women at Civic Center Plaza in Chicago on August 26, 1970. Photo 3. Mary Lynn and her Mom at NOW Constitutional Convention, 1976.

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More About Mary Lynn:

  • The Gradual Fall of the Marital Rape Exemption: The Curious Case of South Dakota, Mollie C. Johnson, Yale College, Branford College, Class of 2018 interviews Mary Lynn Myers
  • VFA event “Unfinished Business of the Women’s Movement” Chicago 2004
    • Mary Lynn Myers speech
    • Mary Lynn Myers remarks
  • South Dakota Hall of Fame
  • Greater Naples Leadership interviews Mary Lynn Myers
  • Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
  • South Dakota Women Stake a Claim – A Feminist Memoir 1964-1989 by Ruth Ann Alexander Copyright ©1990 by the South Dakota State Historical Society
  • Select newspaper and magazine clippings and actions
    • Chicago Sun-Times October 8, 1970
    • Kappa Alpha Theta Magazine, Spring 1973
    • Parade Magazine February 15, 1976
    • Newsday NOW Constitutional Convention 1976
    • Freedom Debate – April 21, 1977
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s book – Feminists Who Changed America – pages 330 – 331
  • World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts – WAGGGS
  • The Story of Kappa Alpha Theta

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