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ERIC Number: EJ514146
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
Alice Paul and the ERA.
Fry, Amelia R.
Social Education, v59 n5 p285-89 Sep 1995
Describes the work of Alice Paul in her 49-year struggle to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Discusses the differences between her proposed language for the amendment, drafted in 1922, and what she considered the flawed language of the amendment that passed Congress in 1972. Includes a legislative chronology for the Equal Rights Amendment. (CFR)
Descriptors: Activism, Citizen Participation, Constitutional History, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Feminism, Political Issues, Politics, Sex Differences, Sex Discrimination, Sex Role, Social Action, Social Change, Social History, Social Studies, United States History, Voter Registration, Voting, Voting Rights, Womens Studies
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Alice Paul Centennial Foundation; Equal Rights Amendment; National Womens Party; Paul (Alice); Womens Suffrage
Note: Theme issue topic: "Breaking the Chains: The 75th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage."