167:, where she became the publicity director of the ERA Countdown Campaign, during which time she helped to organize volunteers visiting residences. She also coordinated phone banks, demonstrations and public relations on behalf of the ERA. She handled the local, statewide and national press for the movement, the legislative research and lobbying. She was the Florida statewide financial officer for the ERA campaign. Despite her efforts, the amendment failed to win ratification in Florida and Illinois by the deadline. She moved to Washington, D.C. in late 1982, where she served as controller of NOW and worked on national
70:(ERA) and while Ciarrochi later expressed support for the goal of focusing on racism and sexism, as exemplified by the founding of the Germantown chapter while she was president, she worried that it would divert focus from women's issues. While she was president, she led a group of 3,500 to attend the
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September 1981 in order to work on the campaign to ratify the ERA in Florida, as part of a wider fight to win ratification of the amendment in Florida, Illinois, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Missouri, and Virginia by June 30, 1982. Ciarrochi moved to
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42:. Her parents were Mary Taraschi, an Italian immigrant, and Alfred Ciarrochi. The couple had fourteen children although only nine survived, of whom Ciarrochi was the youngest. She graduated from
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