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New York State Branch of the National Woman's Party: Constitutional Equality and Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Author: Equal Rights Amendment
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Senate Joint Resolution 61Publisher:
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Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution and Commission on the Legal Status of Women
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Committee Serial No. 16.
Equal Means Equal
Author: Jessica NeuwirthPublisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1620970481
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
When the Equal Rights Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1972, Richard Nixon was president and All in the Family's Archie Bunker was telling his feisty wife Edith to stifle it. Over the course of the next ten years, an initial wave of enthusiasm led to ratification of the ERA by thirty-five states, just three short of the thirty-eight states needed by the 1982 deadline. Many of the arguments against the ERA that historically stood in the way of ratification have gone the way of bouffant hairdos and Bobby Riggs, and a new Coalition for the ERA was recently set up to bring the experience and wisdom of old-guard activists together with the energy and social media skills of a new-guard generation of women. In a series of short, accessible chapters looking at several key areas of sex discrimination recognized by the Supreme Court, Equal Means Equal tells the story of the legal cases that inform the need for an ERA, along with contemporary cases in which women's rights are compromised without the protection of an ERA. Covering topics ranging from pay equity and pregnancy discrimination to violence against women, Equal Means Equal makes abundantly clear that an ERA will improve the lives of real women living in America.
Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution and Commission on the Legal Status of Women
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Constitutional Orphan
Author: Paula A. MonopoliPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190092793
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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"On August 26, 1920, these words became part of the United States Constitution as its Nineteenth Amendment. The requisite thirty- six states had ratified the amendment in the year since its enactment by Congress on June 4, 1919. A revolution in women's rights, spanning over seventy years, came to a quiet conclusion as Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed the measure into law in the privacy of his home at eight o'clock in the morning.1 None of the prominent suffrage leaders of the day, including the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) president, Carrie Chapman Catt; or the National Woman's Party (NWP) chair, Alice Paul, were at the signing.2 Catt was later invited to go to the State Department to see the proclamation, but no similar invitation was extended to the more militant Paul. Paul had been a thorn in the side of President Woodrow Wilson, with her White House picketing and willingness to be imprisoned for the vote.3 Ratification was followed by ten years of litigation- most of it in state courts- during which the meaning and scope of the Nineteenth Amendment was contested. In its most literal sense, the Nineteenth Amendment did not confer a "right" to vote per se. Rather, it simply prohibited the states or the federal government from using sex as a criterion for voter eligibility.4 In other words, its ratification meant that state and federal impediments to voting based on sex were now unconstitutional. It did not mean that all women in the United States could vote.5 As a matter of law, the Nineteenth Amendment meant that states could not prevent African American women from voting based solely on their sex. Yet vast numbers of African American women were prevented from voting in the November 1920 presidential election that followed on the heels of ratification.6 They faced the same impediments- poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and physical intimidation- used to prevent their male counterparts from voting after ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.7 Those amendments conferred citizenship on previously enslaved persons and barred state or federal restrictions on voting based on race, color, and previous condition of servitude"--
Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution and Commission on the Legal Status of Women. Hearings ... on H.J. Res. 49, 62, 85, 86, 89, 104, 110, 1972, 1996, 2003, 2007, 2035, 2323, 3028
Author: United States. Congress. House. JudiciaryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Votes for Women
Author: Jennifer A. LemakPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143846732X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The work for women's suffrage started more than seventy years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and one hundred supporters signed the Declaration of Sentiments asserting that "all men and women are created equal." This convention served as a catalyst for debates and action on both the national and state levels, and on November 6, 1917, New York State passed the referendum for women's suffrage. Its passing in New York signaled that the national passage of suffrage would soon follow. On August 18, 1920, "Votes for Women" was constitutionally granted. Votes for Women, an exhibition catalog, celebrates the pivotal role the state played in the struggle for equal rights in the nineteenth century, the campaign for New York State suffrage, and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. It highlights the nationally significant role of state leaders in regards to women's rights and the feminist movement through the early twenty-first century and includes focused essays from historians on the various aspects of the suffrage and equal rights movements around New York, providing greater detail about local stories with statewide significance. The exhibition of the same name, on display at the New York State Museum beginning November 2017, features artifacts from the New York State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as historical institutions and private collections across the state.
Equal Rights for Men and Women
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 38
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National Woman's Party: Materials Related to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
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Description: Materials and correspondence regarding the passage of the Equals Amendment in the United States Congress. Discussion of the amendment is featured alongside organisation memorandums about.