Paschall, Eliza K. (Personal Name)

NUCMC data from Emory Univ. Libr. for Bullard, H. Helen Bullard papers, 1920-1979 (Eliza King Paschall)

LC data base, 9-9-89 (hdg.: Paschall, Eliza K.)

NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for Her Interview, 1968 May 24 (PASCHALL, Eliza (1917- ); discusses her association with various civil rights groups in Atlanta, especially the Metropolitan Atlanta Summit Leadership Congress, and its role in the Poor People's Campaign)

Emory Univ. Lib. website, viewed Aug. 15, 2017 (under Eliza K. Paschall papers, 1860-1990: Eliza King Paschall, author and activist, was born Oct. 5, 1917, in Adams Run (Charleston County), South Carolina. During World War II, Paschall served with the American Red Cross Clubmobile, mobile units of volunteers providing refreshments and recreation to Allied soldiers across Europe. She married Walter Goode Paschall (1910-1959), a prominent Atlanta journalist, in 1945. She was active in civic, interracial, and women's organizations in which she held several offices including executive director of the Greater Atlanta Council on Human Relations (1961-1967), president of the Georgia League of Women Voters (1955-1957), and national secretary of the National Organization of Women. Paschall was also a compliance officer on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1966-1984) and author of It Must Have Rained (1974), which concerned civil rights in Atlanta, Ga. In the 1970s, Paschall was involved in feminist organizations like the Georgia Commission on the Status of Women and International Women's year, and wrote the employment handbook Because of Sex: A Handbook on Sex Discrimination in Employment. During this time, Paschall experienced considerable conflict with others in the women's movement over the direction it should take. In 1978, after having initially supported the Equal Rights Amendment, Paschall decided she could no longer justify its ratification and campaigned extensively against it. Paschall collaborated with Phyllis Schlafly and other family values activists to oppose the Equal Rights Amendment and was instrumental in its failure to gain ratification by the 1982 deadline. In 1984 Paschall took a position in the Ronald Reagan Administration as Associate Director of Public Liaison, retiring in 1985. Paschall died Feb. 3, 1990 in Southport, England)