Warren K. Leffler: Photograph Of Phyllis Schlafly At White House Demonstration

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Warren K. Leffler: Photograph Of Phyllis Schlafly At White House Demonstration
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Abstract

This photograph depicts Phyllis Schlafly during a protest rally held by her supporters in the STOP ERA movement outside of the National Women’s Convention of 1977. When the Nineteenth Amendment, recognizing women’s right to vote, passed Congress and the states in 1920, the next step for the women’s movement appeared to be to work on another amendment, this one guaranteeing the same equality for women that had gone into the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments for African Americans. When it came to ratification, however, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) faced a radically unusual opponent: Schlafly, who advocated against the equality of men and women before the law.

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