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Title: Amendment to H.R. 638, [May 1978]
Identifier: camh-dob-002141
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States)
Dates: 1978-05
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The amendment, attached to General Counsel Alan Parker's memorandum to Jack Brooks, would insert a clause regarding recission of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Title: Dissenting views Honorable Jack Brooks, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002158
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Document explaining Jack Brooks's stance on both the Equal Rights Amendment and H.R. 638 that Brooks enclosed in correspondence to the Galveston chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Title: The efficacy of state rescission of ratification of a Federal Constitutional Amendment, March 15, 1977
Identifier: camh-dob-002153
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Dates: 1977-03-15
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The report from the Congressional Research Service discusses the legal implications of including an amendment allowing recission to H.R. 638, a bill that would extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment. Recission would allow states that had already passed the ERA to retract their ratification of the amendment.

Title: Handwritten notes, [May 1978]
Identifier: camh-dob-002142
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1978-05
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks's notes from hearings regarding H.R. 638, which would extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment. The notes list Judiciary Committee members who support including a clause regarding recission to H.R. 638.

Title: Judiciary Committee roll call sheet for the final passage of H.R. 638, [1978]
Identifier: camh-dob-002144
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Dates: 1978
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Vote tally from the final passage of H.R. 638 in the Judiciary Committee. H.R. 638 extended the ratification period for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, July 3, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-002156
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Dates: 1978-07-03
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: C.R. Dollinger, Jr., a constituent, admonishes Jack Brooks for not publicly stating his personal opinion on H.R. 638, a bill that would extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment. He urges Brooks to vote against the extension.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, June 21, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-002150
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Dates: 1978-06-21
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Anita Llaves, a constituent, urges Jack Brooks to support the passage of H.R. 638, which would extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, June 26, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-002149
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States)
Dates: 1978-06-26
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The form letter, sent to Jack Brooks by many women in his district, urges Congress to oppose extending the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment. The back of the letter includes a clipping from the Miami Herald discussing the activism of Margo St. James, the founder of COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), in advocating for the rights of sex workers and for the passage of the ERA.

Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, May 22, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-002138
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States)
Dates: 1978-05-22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Mrs. T.S. Meador writes to Jack Brooks regarding the possible extension of the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. An annotation on the letter says "Hold - Good Argument" in reference to allowing states that had already ratified the amendment to reconsider their stance.

Title: Letter from an ERA supporter to Jack Brooks, August 9, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-002152
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Dates: 1978-08-09
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Ruth McGill, M.D. writes to Jack Brooks regarding his decision to vote against H.R. 638, which would extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment. She also states that her organization, Doctors for the Equal Rights Amendment, will withdraw support for all of H.R. 638 if recission is included as an amendment to the bill. Recission would allow states that had already passed the ERA to retract their ratification of the amendment.

Title: Letter from Congressional staff to Jack Brooks, May 31, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-002139
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States)
Dates: 1978-05-31
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: General Counsel Alan Parker writes to Jack Brooks regarding an attached memorandum he prepared on extending the ratification period for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to a constituent, June 27, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-002151
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Dates: 1978-06-27
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks replies to Anita Llaves, a constituent, who urged Brooks to support the passage of H.R. 638, which would extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to the National Organization for Women Galveston chapter, July 31, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-002159
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Dates: 1978-07-31
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter written by Jack Brooks in response to correspondence from the Galveston chapter of the National Organization for Women regarding Brooks's views on the Equal Rights Amendment and H.R. 638, which would extend the ratification period.

Title: Letter from the National Organization for Women Galveston chapter to Jack Brooks, July 23, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-002157
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Dates: 1978-07-23
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Elizabeth Hudman writes to Jack Brooks on behalf of the Galveston chapter of the National Organization for Women regarding their disappointment with his decision to vote against H.R. 638, which would have extended the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment. Hudman requests that Brooks share why he chose to vote against it.

Title: Memorandum, May 31, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-002140
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States)
Dates: 1978-05-31
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The memorandum, written by General Counsel Alan Parker, comments on extending the ratification period for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.

Title: Staff note to Jack Brooks, June 21, 1978 - June 22, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-002155
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Dates: 1978-06-22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A staff note informing Jack Brooks that Frances Hicks with the National Organization for Women called regarding Brooks's support for the inclusion of a recission clause to H.R. 638, a bill that would extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment. Recission would allow states that had already passed the ERA to retract their ratification of the amendment.

Title: Summary of law respecting the constitutionality of Congressional legislation authorizing states to rescind ratifications of a proposed constitutional amendment, [1978]
Identifier: camh-dob-002154
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Dates: 1978
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The summary, distributed by the National Organization for Women (NOW) Action Center, argues that recission is unconstitutional and in direct conflict with Article V of the Constitution.

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