Before you begin this assignment, please be sure to view the following course lectures: Rights and Civil Rights; Feminism and Gay Liberation in the 1970s.And you should also watch the small fragments of the video. The 1977 National Women’s Conference, held in Houston, Texas, intended to bring together a large cross-section of US women to determine a future governing agenda supportive of women’s rights. Participation in the conference was diverse in many ways; the participants came from across the nation and around the world and the conference included women of diverse racial, socio-economic, and ideological backgrounds.
Some conservative women objected to the conference on whole, and staged a counter-conference at the same time in Houston.KERA-TV, the public television station in Dallas, Texas, filmed the events of the conferences. For this assignment, you will view segments of the documentary.Please view the documentary https://texasarchive.org/2013_02597?b=0 The documentary can also be accessed here https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-…00:00-18:0924:23-50:54Please answer the following questions. Please draw on specific examples from the documentary in your response:1. Who, according to the documentary, participated in the National Women’s Conference? What does the film — its narration, its images/visuals, its footage — communicate about the diversity and background of people who attended and participated?2. Please describe at minimum two debates that took place at the conference over proposed motions/resolutions at the conference. What were arguments for and against the resolution? How do advocates/opponents seek to persuade of their positions?3. Please describe some of the issues raised by women of color at the conference in their amendment to the minority women’s resolution.4. Lottie Beth Hobbs defines the difference between the National Women’s Conference and the counter-conference in Houston as a “battle of philosophies.” How so? How were the values/philosophies of the people at the counter-conference distinct from those of the women who participated in the National Women’s Conference?
Requirements: 200 words for each question
