Left to right: Alice Morrison, Evelyn Harrison, Hortense Boutell, and Mary Hilton during a meeting of the President's Commission on the Status of Women at Eleanor Roosevelt's home in Val-Kill, New York, June 1962. Catherine East Papers, Schlesinger Library
October 18, 2013
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the report of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, the Schlesinger Library is featuring a few women who were members of or staffed the commission.