The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. It is not...
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States have passed state equal rights amendments (ERAs) to their constitutions that provide various degrees of legal protection against discrimination...
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The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first proposed in 1923 by suffragist Alice Paul as an amendment to the United States Constitution to prohibit discrimination...
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2024 New York Proposal 1 (redirect from New York Equal Rights Amendment)
amendment to the New York Constitution called the Amendment to Protect Against Unequal Treatment, and informally known as the Equal Rights Amendment....
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From the 1960s through the 1980s, proponents of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) were seeking ratification in each state throughout the United States....
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The Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment is a congressional caucus affiliated with the Democratic Party in the United States House of Representatives...
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that would become the 28th Amendment if ratified Equal Rights Amendment, referred to as the 28th Amendment by President Joe Biden, unratified This disambiguation...
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the Equal Rights Amendment took place on July 9, 1978 in Washington, DC. Over 100,000 people marched for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. There...
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Civil Rights Act of 1866, which guaranteed that all citizens would have the right to equal protection by law. As a whole, the Fourteenth Amendment marked...
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the Yale Law Journal. This proposal is an updated version of the Equal Rights Amendment written by Alice Paul from the National Women's Party, which was...
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§ Limitations). Shortly after the amendment's adoption, Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party began work on the Equal Rights Amendment, which they believed was...
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neighborhoods with anti–Equal Rights Amendment pamphlets and encouraged all members to vote.: 636–637 Nevada did not ratify the amendment.: 637 Sonia Johnson...
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Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response...
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The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would have given the District of Columbia...
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Martha Griffiths (category Equal Rights Amendment activists)
During her time in Congress, Griffiths sponsored the Equal Rights Amendment, one of 33 proposed amendments to pass in Congress and be sent to the states for...
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Thelma Stovall (section Equal Rights Amendment)
Kentucky's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Throughout her career, Stovall was an ardent advocate of labor and women's rights. Thelma Loyace Hawkins...
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Birch Bayh (section Equal Rights Amendment)
authored more than one constitutional amendment. Bayh also led unsuccessful efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and eliminate the United States Electoral...
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Phyllis Schlafly (redirect from Homemakers' Equal Rights Association)
political views, opposed feminism, gay rights, and abortion, and campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. More...
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Anne L. Armstrong (category Equal Rights Amendment activists)
Texas's 19th congressional district. Armstrong was a supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). In 1971, Armstrong was quoted as saying, "I feel like it...
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twenty-seventh amendment was null and void."). Stracqualursi, Veronica (January 30, 2020). "Three Democratic attorneys general sue to have Equal Rights Amendment added...
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Jennings Randolph (section Equal Rights Amendment)
petition for the Equal Rights Amendment. Randolph derided the protesters as "braless bubbleheads" and claimed that the equal rights activists did not...
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movement Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that intended to advance such a condition for women's rights Law of equal liberty...
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Alice Paul (category Equal Rights Amendment activists)
half-century as leader of the National Woman's Party, which fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, written by Paul and Crystal Eastman, to secure constitutional equality...
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connection between the 27th Amendment and the proposed Equal Rights Amendment Gregory Watson's Fight for the 27th Amendment (The Daily Show, interview...
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Beverly White (section Equal Rights Amendment)
Equal Rights Amendment, White was one of the representatives who voted in favor. She sponsored another attempt to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in...
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Rosalynn Carter (section Equal Rights Amendment)
Mansion. Governor Carter once claimed that he had supported the Equal Rights Amendment, while his wife was opposed to the measure; the First Lady privately...
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Jill Ruckelshaus (category Equal Rights Amendment activists)
leading Republican advocate for feminist policies, such as the Equal Rights Amendment and women's reproductive choice, during the peak of political influence...
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Erma Bombeck (section Equal Rights Amendment (1978))
Committee for Women, particularly for the final implementation of the Equal Rights Amendment, with the ERA America organization's support. Bombeck was strongly...
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Norma C. Russell (section Equal Rights Amendment)
Year in 1982. Russell responded by letter to a supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment, stating her reasons for refusing to endorse. Assembly, South Carolina...
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amendments that would become the 28th Amendment if ratified Equal Rights Amendment, referred to as the 28th Amendment by President Joe Biden, disputed This...
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