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Title	Letter from Catherine May to Personal Friend Stuart Semon regarding Enclosed Correspondence on National Women's Party, 1964
Subject	Legislators--United State--Archives United States--Politics and government--20th century--Sources Women's Rights
Author	Bedell, Catherine May, 1914-2004
Description	Catherine May writes to personal friend and constituent Stuart Semon in regarding her contact with Seymour H. Kaplan, the Pacific Northwest Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'rith. May writes to Kaplan at the request of Semon, in order to defend some comments by Emma Guffy Miller, the Chairman of the National Woman's Party, which many construed as anti-Semitic and racist. In her personal letter to Semon she says"...this National Woman's Party is really a kookie outfit..." and she says she is "stuck with this battle to get equal rights for women, though I'm not so darned sure we would want them if we got them!" She goes on to joke with Semon, asking him to "burn this letter because I would rather have the Teamsters' Union on my neck than the National Woman's Party...!" Though these comments may be interpreted as anti-women's rights, it is an example of one of many causes May fought fervently for when she perceived the greater common good to be at stake--sometimes in opposition to her own personal views and her constituents.
Date	1964
Publisher	Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Type	Outgoing Personal Correspondence
Format of digital manifestation	Original photographic prints were scanned as 300 dpi TIFF files on an OpticBook 3600 Plus scanner. 72 dpi JPEG files were then added to the CONTENTdm database at the WSU Libraries.
Identifier	C304B114c_1-3.jpeg
Source	Catherine May Congressional Papers, 1959-1970. Collection number: Cage 304. http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg304.htm
Reproduction	For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
Language	English
Relation	National Womanâ€™s Party

Title	Page 1
Subject	Legislators--United State--Archives United States--Politics and government--20th century--Sources
Publisher	Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State<br>University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Format of digital manifestation	Original photographic prints were scanned as 300 dpi TIFF files on an OpticBook 3600 Plus scanner. 72 dpi JPEG files were then added to the CONTENTdm database at the WSU Libraries.
Identifier	C304B114c_1.jpeg
Source	Catherine May Congressional Papers, 1959-1970 Collection number: Cage 304 http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg304.htm
Reproduction	For permission to publish please contact Washington State University<br>Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
Language	English

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