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Heritage Project — Me Too, circa 1970

March 13, 2023

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A movement of sorts began at Jean Ledwith King’s modest house on the far west side of Ann Arbor early in 1970 when King and a handful of other women asserted that U-M should treat women the same as men. They began to see the pattern, and that it amounted to systematic and illegal discrimination on the basis of sex. — Read the full story on the Heritage Project. Click on the image to enlarge.

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