Want to learn more about the Equal Rights Amendment? Here are some resources to get you started …
Backgrounders on the ERA:
- Alice Paul Institute – Frequently Asked Questions
- A Brief History of the ERA – a bulleted list of dates in history
- ERA Coalition – ERA History in Brief
- Will the ERA protect transgender persons? FAQ article from VA ratify ERA.
- Op-Ed: The Role of Black Women in the Fight to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment – excellent article from the Black Feminist Collective
Useful Websites:
- ERA Coalition – the ERA-NC Alliance is a lead member organization of this national coalition
- Alice Paul Institute
- Equal Means Equal – the organization created by filmmaker Kamala Lopez (see the movies list below)
- Vote Equality – Now that Virginia has ratified the ERA, the organizers are turning their focus nationwide
- Generation Ratify – the youth-led movement to ratify the ERA
Catch up on your reading:
- Equal Means Equal, Jessica Neuwirth
- NCpedia’s page about the ERA effort in North Carolina
- Read the transcript or listen to the audio of an interview with Martha McKay, a North Carolina ERA activist in the 1970’s; here she describes how the ratification failed in NC when some key legislators changed their votes at the last minute.
- Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA, Donald Mathews and Jane Sherron De Hart – the comprehensive story of the ERA effort in North Carolina
Movies/TV:
- Equal Means Equal – Kamala Lopez – you’ll find a list of places to watch, rent or buy the film here.
- Mrs. America – a docudrama series from Hulu about Phyllis Schlafly