Pro-ERA Button, 1972-1982
notes: label: Description
content: Button worn by supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
label: Description
content: In 1972 the Equal Rights Amendment, designed to guarantee protection against sexual discrimination for women under the law, passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the individual states for ratification. Groups on both sides of the issue mobilized to lobby the states for and against passage.
label: Description
content: The ERA failed to meet the requisite number of state ratifications (38) by Congress’ deadline of June 30, 1982 and so was not adopted as a Constitutional amendment. It has been reintroduced several times
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Suffrage
label: Subject
content: Women's Rights
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Woman Suffrage
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Edith P. Mayo
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0708.03
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0708.03
label: accession number
content: 1988.0708
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 1/4 in; 5.715 cm x 5.715 cm x .635 cm