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Women's rights groups celebrate New York ERA passage


Women's rights groups celebrate New York ERA passage

Pro-choice advocates are celebrating on Wednesday as New Yorkers overwhelmingly voted to protect the right to abortion in NYS through Prop ...

Women's Rights Groups Celebrate New York ERA Passage

In a victory for reproductive rights, New Yorkers voted for Proposition 1, also known as the Equal Right Amendment (ERA), to protect abortion in their city. But ...

Women's rights groups celebrate New York ERA passage - PoliticsNY

Pro-choice advocates are celebrating on Wednesday as New Yorkers overwhelmingly voted to protect the right to abortion not only in the city ...

WBASNY celebrates Equal Rights Amendment - Brooklyn Eagle

WBASNY is celebrating the passage of Proposition 1, which enshrines the Equal Rights Amendment in the New York State Constitution.

Celebrate the ERA's 100th Birthday in Seneca Falls, Where It Was ...

On July 22, 1923, the National Women's Party unveiled the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) at the First Presbyterian Church of Seneca Falls in New York.

Women's Liberation in New York

It was the 50th anniversary of the passage of woman suffrage, and the Women's Strike for Equality March, led by the National Organization for Women, was ...

Equal Rights Amendment Advances to New York Voters in ... - NYCLU

The ERA (S. · “It's official: equality will literally be on the ballot in 2024,” said Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York Civil ...

"Women Strike for Equality" | Jewish Women's Archive

Ten thousand women marched down New York's Fifth Avenue on August 26, 1970, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the 19th ...

Women's Suffrage Movement - National Geographic Kids

They founded the American Woman Suffrage Association to support the 15th Amendment for Black men's vote, figuring that the amendment wouldn't pass if women were ...

Women's Rights and the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments ...

Under the leadership of Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a convention for the rights of women was held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848.

What Comes Next for the Equal Rights Amendment?

The ERA is a constitutional amendment that, if formally recognized as the 28th Amendment, would make sex-based equality explicit in the US Constitution for the ...

Women's Equality Day | Gender Equality, Women's Rights & Suffrage

Women's Equality Day, annual event in the United States, observed on August 26 since its inception in 1971, marking American women's advancements toward ...

History of the Women's Rights Movement

All told, the campaign for woman suffrage met such staunch opposition that it took 72 years for the women and their male supporters to be successful. As you ...

How Flappers of the Roaring Twenties Redefined Womanhood

Young women with short “bob” hairstyles, cigarettes dangling from their painted lips, dancing to a live jazz band, explored new‑found ...

The Fight for Equality – Commemorating the Contributions of ...

While the amendment did not guarantee the vote for women, it was a benchmark moment for American democracy and an important milestone in women's ...

National Organization for Women (NOW) | History, Goals, & Facts

National Organization for Women, American activist organization (founded in 1966) that promotes equal rights for women. It is the largest feminist group in ...

Alice Paul Women's Suffrage - Bill of Rights Institute

In 1910, Paul returned from Great Britain to work for legal and economic equality for American women, joining the National American Woman Suffrage Association ( ...

Women's Suffrage | National WWI Museum and Memorial

When the 19th Amendment took effect on Aug. 18, 1920, it followed over a century and a half of activism by and for women.

History of Marches and Mass Actions

The Suffragist Example · Women of Color Early Leaders · Second Wave's Early Protests · The ERA's Heyday · After ERA, The Storm of Abortion Protests · 2004 March for ...

Susan B. Anthony | National Women's History Museum

Anthony was born in 1820 in Massachusetts. · Anthony fought for the abolition of slavery. · In 1851, Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the two suffragists ...