Who proposed the amendment that would guaranteed equal rights?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Question is unclear.

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.

Answer 3

Frederick douglas