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Frederick Douglass was the man who fought for the adoption of the Constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights. The Fifteenth Amendment gives citizens the right to vote no matter their race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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In 1938, the organization known as the Federation of Business and Professional Women seems to have been the first to create the cause for the ERA after Alice Paul of Suffragist fame had assumed ERA would pass once women could vote. In 1940, the Republican Party then put forward their support of the ERA (they dropped it from their Platform in 1980, under Pres. Reagan.) Wording changed a bit in 1943 to its current language: "Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex {ie., gender}. "
Congress debated ERA from 1923 to 1972, when the proposed ERA was passed out to the states to garner the required 3/4 of the states, or 38 of them ratifying. Representative Martha Griffiths (D-Miami FL) found it necessary to file a discharge petition to demand that the ERA be heard by the full House of Representatives in 1970.
So, the honor of proposing and introducing the ERA and carrying it through the vote might likely be accorded to Rep. Martha Griffiths.
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What was the outcome of the ERA?
The Equal Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment that failed to be ratified by enough states. It proposed equal rights for both sexes.
What is Equal Rights Amendment?
It was a failed US amendment that would have guaranteed equal rights to both men and women.
What Proposed amendment caused questions when states revoked their ratification?
Equal Rights Amendment
This proposed amendment caused questions when states revoked their ratification.?
Equal Rights Amendment
In the 1970s the Equal Rights Amendment was submitted by Congress to the states for ratification. The Equal Rights Amendment would have guaranteed equal rights for women. During the ratification proce?
The Right to Equal treatment under the law.
The proposed amendment to the constitution that would have made and women 100 percent equal in the eyes of the law was known as the?
equal rights amendment
What The proposed amendment to the Constitution that would have made men and women 100 percent equal in the eyes of the law was known as?
equal rights amendment
The proposed amendment to the Constitution that would have made men and women 100 percent equal in the eyes of the law was known as the .?
Equal rights amendment
What is the equal right amendement?
It was a failed US amendment that would have guaranteed equal rights to both men and women.
What does the acronym ERA stand for?
Equal Rights Amendment, an amendment to the U.S. Constitution proposed in the early 1970s but never ratified
What was the failed constitutional amendment that was intended to give equality to woman?
The Equal Rights Amendment
When was the Equal Rights Amendment added to the Constitution?
The Equal Rights Amendment was first proposed by Alice Paul in 1923, when it was first introduced to Congress. Since then it has failed to gain momentum in the US Legislature, gaining the most probable chance of passing in 1972 before spending a decade in deliberation before its eventual failure in 1982.
