Equal Rights Amendment North Carolina Alliance
It's Time to Write Women Into the Constitution!
The Equal Rights Amendment, which was introduced nearly 100 years ago, became enforceable as the 28th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution on Thursday, Jan. 27. The amendment, passed in January 2020 when Virginia became the final state to ratify, gave federal and state governments exactly two years to bring their statutes into alignment.
Equal rights advocates and state legislators put the North Carolina General Assembly on notice Thursday that most state statutes need review under the newly enforceable 28th Amendment/ERA.
Watch our latest video campaign in partnership with the national ERA Coalition!
Let’s Speak Up
Let’s Step Up
Let’s refuse to shut up until the ERA is no longer held up
Let’s Ramp up and Sister Up for the change we deserve
And the Equality we should have been born into
So that our daughters and their daughters will be
Let’s Shake Up
Let’s Stand Up
Let’s Woman Up
Let’s do it Right Now!
Rise Up for ERA
Take action! The ERA-NC Alliance urges everyone to immediately ask Christopher Schroeder, left, the newly appointed Assistant Attorney General overseeing the Office of Legal Counsel, to rescind the 2020 memo to the National Archivist. That memo, sent during U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr’s tenure, effectively stopped National Archivist David Ferriero from publishing the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The ERA met all constitutional requirements when Virginia became the 38th and final state needed to ratify on January 27, 2020.
ERA-NC Alliance condemns actions
of Texas Legislature and Supreme Court
The ERA-NC Alliance condemns members of the Texas Legislature who supported passage of Texas Law SB8 and the US Supreme Court for failing to stop implementation of that law, which effectively strips women of their constitutional right to make private, personal decisions regarding their reproduction and health care choices.
Women have been denied full autonomy for centuries. It has only been in the last 50-plus years that women have been able to serve on juries, get credit, apply and get most jobs, earn a living wage (although not an equitable one compared to their male counterparts) and control when and if they have children.
Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Online via Zoom
Our keynote speaker for the annual meeting is Allison Titman, Executive Director of the Alice Paul Institute. She has held leadership, curatorial, and exhibit management roles at several historic house museums in the Washington, D.C. region, as well as the Women’s Memorial at Arlington Cemetery. You can learn more about the excellent work the Alice Paul Institute is doing at their website; they also have lots of background information and photos of Alice Paul herself there as well.