How woman rights has helped to “form a more perfect union” and create equality and justice for all when it comes to voting and voting rights in U.S. History. (6 sentences)
Respuestas a la pregunta
Respuesta:
Abstract: Only fifty-one words in length, the proposed Equal Rights Amendment drafted by National Woman's Party president Alice Paul in 1923 became one of the most contested pieces of legislation in the twentieth century. Through a variety of Library sources, Gladstone reconstructs the arguments for and against its ratification and summarizes the impact of the struggle on women's legal status in the last two decades of the century.
Zabala, Teresa, photographer. [Supporters of the proposed Federal equal rights amendment demonstrating yesterday in Lafayette Park across from the White House]. 1982. Library of Congress Newspaper and Current Periodicals Reading Room.
At a National Organization for Women (NOW) rally in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, on June 30, 1982, NOW president Eleanor Smeal rallied an estimated two thousand supporters, including seven hundred nurses in town for the American Nurses Association convention.1 Although they were there that day mourning the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Smeal urged them not to forget that “We are a majority. We are determined to play majority politics . . . . We are not going to be reduced again to the ladies' auxiliary.”2
Explicación: