1958, English, Unpublished edition: Johnson, Sonia Sonia Johnson

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  • 10.5 lin. ft., ead
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  • J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
  • Manuscripts Division
  • 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982
Language
  • English

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Title
  • Johnson, Sonia
Creator
  • Sonia Johnson
Published
  • J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
  • Manuscripts Division
  • 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982
Physical Description
  • 10.5 lin. ft., ead
Subjects
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  • The bulk of the collection is concerned with Sonia Johnson's excommunication from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, her campaign in support of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the group "Mormons for ERA" between the years 1978 and 1982. There is a small amount of personal material, mainly family correspondence, included with the collection and dated between 1958 and 1982.; Biographical Sketch; PERSONAL; Personal Correspondence - Temporarily Restricted; Sonia and Rich Johnson to Harris, Family; Ida Harris to Sonia Johnson; Personal Correspondence - Temporarily Restricted; Sonia and Rick Johnson; Sonia and Rick Johnson to their children; Eric Johnson; Sonia Johnson and Family Members; Robert Michael Harris; Jeff Harris; Ina and Wayne Harris; Martha Harris; Ida Harris; Ida Johnson; Grace Smith; Lupe P. Afuvia; Sinapi Afuvia; Ida and Alvin Harris; Friends to Sonia Johnson; Archives to Sonia Johnson; Miscellaneous Personal Items; Excommunication; L.D.S. Church Documents; Correspondence with First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Summons, Trial, and Appeal; Defense: Michael J. Barrett; Defense: Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.; Defense: Articles; Trial Testimonies and Statements; Trial Vigil Prayers and Statements; Press Packet; Notes on Church Meeting; Miscellaneous Correspondence; Sterling Park Ward Kirectory; Letters to LDS Church Leaders; EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT; Organizations, Pro-ERA., A - N; American Association of University Women; Organizations A; Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Organizations B; Congressional Union; Organizations C; E. R. A. Action Line (Seattle, Washington); ERAmerica; Equal Rights Coalition of Utah; Organizations E; Organizations F; Homemakers' Equal Rights Association (Housewices for ERA); Organizations I- L; Organizations M; National Organization for Women (NOW), National; National Organization for Women (NOW), States, A-T; Organizations, Pro-ERA, N-W; National Organization for Women (NOW), States U-W; Organizations N; Organizations O; Organizations P; Religious Advocates for Equality; Religious Committee for the ERA; Organizations S- T; Organizations U; Organizations V; Women's Political Caucus; Organizations W; Equal Rights Amendment Information; Statements of Extension and Recision; Judge Marion J. Callister; Congressional Hearings on ERA; Speeches and Statements on ERA; Reports on ERA; Pamphlets; Anti-ERA Information; Articles about ERA; Newspaper Clippings on ERA; Miscellaneous Information on ERA; LDS Church Organizations Against ERA; Arizona; Florida; Missouri; Nevada; Nevada; Nevada; Virginia; Miscellaneous States; General; MORMONS FOR ERA; LDS Church and ERA; LDS Church; Women LDS Church and ERA; Meetings with LDS Church Officials; Statements and Articles by LDS Church Officials; Primary Class Lesson; Mormons for ERA; Pusillo Study; Articles and Newspaper Clippings; Articles and Newspaper Clippings; Articles on Women and Religion; Articles, Papers and Newspaper Clippings on Women; Mormons for ERA; Senate Committee Hearing; Sonia Johnson Biographical Notes; Correspondence; Correspondence; Speeches and Statements; Activities Permits; Bellevue, Washington Arrest; ERA Missionaries in Utah; Southern California Mormons for ERA; Washington Mormons for ERA; Ex-Mormons for ERA; Utah Mormons for ERA; Mormons for ERA; By-laws; Minutes; Name and Address Lists; Press Releases; Newsletters; Pamphlets; Miscellaneous; Exponent II; Articles and Newspaper Clippings; CORRESPONDENCE--Temporarily Restricted; Correspondence-Mormons for ERA, A-H; Name List; A-D; Cheryl L. Dalton; E-H; Susan Hofen; Nadine Hansen; Correspondence-Mormons for ERA, I-T; I-Mu; Beatrice Marchant and Byron Marchant; Loneta Murphy; N-P; Betty Parkinson; Alice Allred Pottmyer; R-S; John Sillito and Linda Sillitoe; T; Correspondence-Mormons for ERA, U-Z; Alienated and Ex-LDS for ERA, A-Z; Mary Jean Uebelgunne; U-W; Bill Washburn; Arlene Wood; Teddie Wood; Z; Multiple Signatures, Unsigned, and Incomplete Signatures; Name List; A-G; John W. Gitzgerald; H-Z, and Unsigned; Correspondence-Mormons for ERA Alienated and Ex-LDS, Religion; Name List; A-L; Grant Mildenhall; P-T, and Unsigned; Correspondence-LDS, Anti-ERA; Name List; A-D; Gigl Doty; E-Y, Multiple Signatures, Unsigned, and Incomplete Signatures; Correspondence-Non-LDS, Pro-ERA, A-E; Name List; A-E; Correspondence-Non-LDS, Pro-ERA, F-K; Correspondence-Non-LDS, Pro-ERA, L-Re; Correspondence-Non-LDS, Pro-ERA, Rh-Z; Correspondence - Non-LDS, Pro-ERA; Multiple Signatures, Unsigned, Incomplete Signatures; Correspondence - Non-LDS, Anti-ERA, Non-LDS, Religion; Non-LDS, Anti-ERA Name List, A - W, Unsigned; Non-LDS, Relition Name list, A - Z, Multiple Signatures Unsigned, Incomplete Signatures; Pro-Sonia, Requests for ERA Information; Pro-Sonia A - W; Requests for ERA Information A - W; SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, SPEECHES AND WRITINGS; Speaking Engagements; Chronological List; Speaking Engagements; Miscellaneous Information on Personal Appearances; Engagements Declined; Speaker's Bureaus; World Conference of the U. N. Decade for Women; Speeches and Articles; "The Last Great Western Patriarchy"; "Patriarchial Panic: Sexual Politics in the Mormon Church"; "Off Our Pedestals, or the Chronicles of the Uppity Sisters"; Speeches; Articles by Sonia Johnson; Notes for Speeches and Articles; Interviews; From Housewife to Heretic; Original Draft; Draft; From Housewife to Heretic; Draft; Book Jacket; Doubleday Correspondence; Tape Transcripts; Chapter Outlines; Autobiography of Sonia Johnson Typescript; Story Rights--David M. Jabusch; Story Rights--Correspondence; NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS; Newspaper Clippings; Newspaper Clippings; Newspaper Clippings; Newspaper Clippings; Newspaper Clippings; Newspaper Clippings; Newspaper Clippings; MISCELLANEOUS; Daybooks; Miscellaneous; Religious Roundtable National Affairs Briefing; The Far Right Wing; Miscellaneous; Ribbons, Buttons, Badges, and Stickers; Interesting Envelopes; 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.; LDS Pro ERA.; 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.; A copy of the book is found in the Western Americana.; 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.; Spiral bound steno pads containing phone messages, notes on things to be done, notes for articles or speeches, address and phone numbers.; 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.
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