In the article “Virginia Just Became the 38th State to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Here’s What to Know About the History of the ERA” By Tara Law in TIME Magazine Online at time.com First Published August 23, 2019; Updated January 15, 2020. Tara Law speaks and informs us of how Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, fulfilling the requirement that three-quarters of the states must approve it in order to add it to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment was written in 1923 by members of the National Woman’s Party and passed by Congress in 1972. It stated that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns formed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which used parades, petitions, protests and pickets to push for the right to vote. The Equal Rights Amendment of 1972 was unsuccessful due to a seven-year deadline for ratification. Martha Griffiths, a Michigan Congresswoman, worked to have sex discrimination added to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and pushed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to double down on its enforcement. Griffiths reintroduced the amendment the following year and it passed the House and Senate on Oct. 12, 1971 and March 22, 1972. However, the amendment’s passage had a major consequence: mobilizing anti-femin The Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed constitutional amendment that could have a profound effect on women’s rights. Proponents argue that it could strengthen the legal basis for combating violence against women, pay inequality and maternity leave, while opponents argue that it could lead to the striking down of laws that restrict access to abortion. Professor Tracy Thomas of The University of Akron School of Law argues that the law would prevent women’s rights from sliding back and eliminate some “wiggle room” that leaves space in the law for stereotypes to affect civil rights. She also argues that protecting women’s rights in the Constitution would have a major cultural impact. One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview This timeline accompanies the Prints and Photographs Division reference aid, Votes for Women: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage: Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress, highlighting images found in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog from the years 1776-1850 | 1851-1899 | 1900-1920 this overview states everything that has happened from the range of these years 1776-1850 | 1851-1899 | 1900-1920 such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Woman’s Bible and NAWSA distances itself from her. Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Margaret Murray Washington, Fanny Jackson Coppin, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Charlotte Forten Grimké, and Harriet Tubman form the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Maud Wood Park is the youngest delegate to the NAWSA convention. Susan B. Anthony steps down as president and chooses Carrie Chapman Catt to succeed her. Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first American woman elected to represent her state in the House of Representatives. The Nineteenth Amendment was adopted and NAWSA became the League of Women Voters.