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100th Anniversary of the ERA
Leslie Denis • July 20, 2023
Alice Paul circa 1918. (Library of Congress)
One hundred years ago, New Woman and suffrage icon Alice Paul introduced her Lucretia Mott Amendment in Seneca Falls, New York, appropriately on July 20, the 75th anniversary of the first women’s rights convention of 1848. In time, the New Woman would become known as a feminist, and the Lucretia Mott Amendment would become known as the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA finally passed the House and the Senate in 1972, but it was never ratified.
More than a century has passed since the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. Today, the rights of women, the LGBTQ community, and others are under attack. There is much work to be done. Use your voice: demand equality and freedom of choice for all people. And VOTE. Vote as if your life depends upon it. It might.