(11697) Equal Rights Amendment Extension March

AFSCME participated in the 1978 march on Washington organized by the National Organization of Women (NOW) to advocate for an extension of the deadline by which states had to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. constitution which sought to bar legal discrimination on the basis of sex. 100,000 supporters marched, and the deadline was extended by 3 years.

(11697) Equal Rights Amendment Extension March
Date: 
July 9, 1978
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Photograph
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