Public speaking, xl, 4, 38, 307, 553–554,
643, 644, 723
Puerto Rican Americans, 677–678
Pyle, Gladys, 554
Quaker women, 553, 555
Quinton, Amelia, 82–83, 555–556
Racial discrimination, 557–558. See also
Civil rights movement; Equal Em-
ployment Opportunity Commission
Racial gerrymandering, 430
Racial Justice, National Office of, 727
Racism, 271, 339, 449–450, 596, 653,
782–793. See also Antilynching move-
ment; Civil rights movement
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organi-
zations statute (RICO), 8, 485,
509–510, 518, 549
Radical feminism, 46–47, 99, 172, 380,
499, 565, 640, 642–643
Radicalesbians, 99, 558
Rambaut, Mary Lucinda Bonney. See Bon-
ney, Mary
Rankin, Jeannette, 163, 526, 551, 559–561,
615
Rape, xlii, 338, 494, 561–563, 679
across races, 694
Rawalt, Marguerite, 144, 543, 711
Ray, Dixy Lee, 297, 563
Reagan, Nancy, 563–565
Reagan, Ronald, 7, 109, 128, 206, 326, 573,
626, 687
Redstockings, 99, 172, 565, 641, 642–643
Reece, Louise, 565
Reed v. Reed, 29, 278, 283, 293, 565–566
Reform Party, 542
Reid, Charlotte, 546, 566
Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights
(RCAR), 567
Religious Coalition for Reproductive
Choice (RCRC), 567
Religious dissidence, 348
Reno, Janet, 110, 568–569
Reproductive rights, 5–9, 193, 194, 264,
569–570, 626, 636, 794–807
groups supporting, 417, 456, 474, 479,
486, 536–537, 567
in political parties, 193, 194, 573, 626
See also Abortion; Contraception
Republican Majority Coalition, 371
Republican Party, 570–574
and abortion, 8, 177, 573, 574, 703–704
African Americans in, 662, 694
and ERA, 238, 244
national conventions of, 496, 571,
572–573, 675, 699, 701
Republican National Committee
(RNC), 44, 424, 425, 429, 434, 482,
548, 552, 571–572, 625–626, 696
and suffrage, 170, 571, 649
women’s clubs of, 424, 481–482, 483,
570, 572
Women’s Division in, 17, 389, 548, 571
Republican Women’s Task Force (RWTF),
573
Republicans for Choice (RFC), 574
Retirement Equity Act (1984), 219
Rhodes scholarships, 711
Richards, Ann, xxxv, 297, 575–576, 689
Riley, Corrine, 576
Rivers, Lynn, 229, 577
Rivlin, Alice, 110, 577–578
Roberts, Barbara, 297, 578–579
Robertson, Alice Mary, 579–580, 616
Robinson, JoAnn, 717
Robinson, Ruby, 148, 580–581
Rock for Choice, 263
Roe v. Wade, 6, 294, 581–582, 689, 690
Rogers, Edith Nourse, 165, 439, 582–584
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 34, 68, 70, 191, 192,
197, 236, 451, 506, 513, 543, 584–
586
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 68, 70–71, 109,
136, 196, 197, 207, 256
Roosevelt, Theodore, 135–136, 548–549
Rose, Ernestine, 421
Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana, 586–587
Ross, Nellie Tayloe, 197, 297, 551, 587–
588
Roukema, Margaret, 166, 253, 588–590
Roy, Vesta, 590
Roybal-Allard, Lucille, 590–591
RU-486 (Mifepristone), 263, 466, 591–592
Ruckelshaus, Jill, 474
Ruffin, Josephine, 43, 290, 481, 592
Rust v. Sullivan, 7, 593
Sabin, Pauline, 660
Saiki, Patricia, 595
St. George, Katharine, 236, 595–596
Saiz, Profirria Hidalgo, 638
Salter, Susannah Medora, 551
Sanchez, Loretta, 596
Sandler, Bernice, 222, 301
Sanger, Margaret, 324, 536, 597–599, 794
Sarachild, Kathie, 641
Schakowsky, Janice, 600
Schenk, Lynn, 600
Schlafly, Phyllis, 172, 215–216, 241–242,
482, 486, 573, 601–602, 755
Schneider, Claudine, 602–603
Schroeder, Patricia, 253, 280, 333, 403, 542,
603–605
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