Women have been fighting for equal rights since before 1834. ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿 Here’s how we went from textile unions to the first woman & Afro-Indian US Vice President. #WomensHistoryMonth
The Founding Fathers’ principles of “life, liberty, and property” didn’t apply to any women until 1900 when married women were finally able to access property and wages.
White women won the right to vote 122 years ago. Black women finally won the right to vote in 1965 – only 57 years ago.
The introduction of the Equal Rights Amendment showed a public interest in granting women the same legal rights and freedoms as men.
While men were sent to war, women stepped up to not just provide care at home but fill the jobs that kept the country moving.
The Equal Pay Act intended to secure equal wages regardless of gender. Unfortunately, there is still a fight to close the pay gap across gender and race.
The Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. All women were now legally protected from discrimination.
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” Rep. Shirley Chisholm did exactly that in her glass ceiling-shattering run for Congress and later President of the United States.
48 years ago the Equal Credit Opportunity Act finally gave women a new kind of financial independence.
Survivors of domestic violence had little to no recourse against their attackers until 1994. The Violence Against Women Act improved criminal, legal and community-based responses for survivors of sexual and domestic assault.
In 2022, the Virginia Attorney General withdrew support of the Equal Rights Act. Because of this, the ERA no longer is eligible for constitutional ratification.
From Attorney General of California to Senator to Vice President, Kamala Harris has paved the way for women of color to be represented at all levels of government.
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From the 1965 Voting Rights Act until now, we have seen great progress in ensuring the equal right to vote. At the same time, democracy is under threat. Learn more about how the U.S. can improve voting rights. ↓
Call the Senate to show your support: 1-833-312-1833
Local governments will no longer be able to implement discriminatory voting laws meant to block communities of color from voting.
Americans will be able to vote where they want, making voting more accessible to all.
When our country was founded in 1776, voting rights were in the hands of a few: white, wealthy, male landowners. We have come far since then, but not without struggle – and a ways to go. Tell the Senate to support voting rights this holiday weekend: 1-833-312-1833
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched 5 days in AL from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery in a movement that captured the nation. That same year, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed The Voting Rights Act into law, ending legal discrimination towards Black voters.
The Voting Rights Act increased accessibility for Black, working class people to vote by banning the expensive poll taxes and literacy tests that were required for Blacks to vote until then.