Equal rights amendment

Using primary sources and an inquiry-based approach, students will research a civil rights movement and then share their findings in a small group, with the goal of learning about the complexities of civil rights activism that has shaped our efforts to form a more perfect union.

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Women at a rally in support of the Equal Rights Amendment in Detroit’s Kennedy Square, June 30, 1981.

Women couldn't get their own credit cards until the 1970s?

1970 - The Statue of Liberty Has Long Been a Magnet for Protest - A group of women rally at the Statue of Liberty in August, 1970. In the background on the Statue of Liberty reads a banner saying, “Women of the World Unite.” In 1970, feminist Betty Friedan called for a national women’s strike on August 26 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted U.S. women the right to vote. (Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images). HISTORY

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Despite the ratification of the 19th Amendment, women’s rights advocates argued that women didn’t have equal rights under the law.

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"The GCs of the major companies that signed on to the brief were intimately involved," said Paul Weiss partner Liza Velazquez.

A brief history of the long battle to pass what would now be the 28th Amendment

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ERA Toolkit and Advocacy Resources – Feminist Majority

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A highlight reel of gender relations over the last billion years or so.

Equality, a basic right to our human existence, should not be a complicated achievement; yet for decades upon decades, the 'powers that be' continue to make it so. ‪#‎RatifyERA‬ ‪#‎DemandERA‬ "I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality." ~ Alice Paul, Author of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1923

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