Sonia Johnson was an outspoken supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment and in the late 1970s was publicly critical of the position of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which she was a member, against the proposed amendment.
16 Facts About Sonia Johnson
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Sonia Johnson was eventually excommunicated from the church for her activities.
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Sonia Johnson went on to publish several radical feminist books, ran for president in 1984, and become a popular feminist speaker.
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Sonia Johnson attended Utah State University and married Rick Johnson following graduation.
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Sonia Johnson earned a master's degree and a Doctor of Education from Rutgers College.
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Sonia Johnson was employed as a part-time teacher of English in universities both in the United States and abroad, following her husband to new places of employment.
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Ida was buried in Logan, Utah, but Sonia Johnson did not attend the funeral because she had promised her mother not to return to Utah.
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Sonia Johnson began speaking out in support of the ERA in 1977 and with three other women, co-founded an organization called Mormons for ERA.
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Sonia Johnson denounced as immoral and illegal the LDS Church's nationwide lobbying efforts to prevent passage of the ERA.
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Sonia Johnson's husband divorced her in October 1979, two months before the trial.
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Sonia Johnson protested venues such as the Republican Party headquarters in Washington, DC Sonia Johnson and twenty ERA supporters were briefly jailed for chaining themselves to the gate of the Seattle Washington Temple in Bellevue, Washington.
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Sonia Johnson ran in the 1984 presidential election, as the candidate of the US Citizens Party, Pennsylvania's Consumer Party, and California's Peace and Freedom Party.
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Sonia Johnson founded Wildfire, a short-lived separatist commune for women that disbanded in 1993.
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Sonia Johnson became increasingly radicalized, especially against state power, as reflected in the books she published after 1987.
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Sonia Johnson compares both relationships to the Stockholm syndrome in which hostages develop an emotional attachment to their captors.
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Sonia Johnson was a featured speaker at the 2007 Feminist Hullabaloo activist gathering.