Image 10: Photograph, "C. Delores Tucker of Pennsylvania objects to seating of all-white delegation from Mississippi, 1977" from National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year, The Spirit of Houston: The First National Women's Conference (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978), p. 142.

   Conservative forces present at the Mississippi state meeting to elect delegates to the NWC included the Ku Klux Klan, Stop ERA, Right to Life, the John Birch Society. the Eagle Forum, and fundamentalist religious groups. These conservatives elected an all-white delegation to attend the NWC in Houston. One black women was initially elected to the delegation, but she subsequently resigned. During the Second Plenary Session at the NWC, C. Delores Tucker of Pennsylvania, former secretary of state, took the stage to register her disapproval of the composition of the Mississippi delegation. Her objection was ruled out of order by the session's chair (see Document 19), but the NCOIWY had already officially criticized the outcome of elections in Mississippi and delegates at the NWC "hissed" and booed" the Mississippi delegates as they were seated.[76]

C. Delores Tucker of Pennsylvania objects to seating of all-white delegation from Mississippi.
Copyright © 1977 Diana Mara Henry/dianamarahenry.com

   

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