Word: eramerica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Announced a discouraged Sheila Greenwald, executive director of Eramerica, after the latest setbacks: "We're not planning new strategy, because in many cases the legislators that defeated ERA the last time are still there." The Justice Department is currently studying the rescinding votes by seven states, including the three voted last week, to determine if they are binding. Even if they are not, the best chance for ERA ratification now rests with election results in 1980. ERA proponents would have to elect enough supporters to change the antiamendment positions of at least three state legislatures...
...minority rights resolution that was drafted by conference organizers but later rewritten and toughened by the one-third of delegates who were black, Hispanic, Indian or Oriental. The revised version was carried with virtual unanimity by delegates who had split bitterly on other issues. Exulted Liz Carpenter, leader of ERAmerica, the group spearheading the amendment ratification drive: "We can no longer be accused of being a middle-class white women's cause." New Yorker Letty Cottin Pogrebin recalled seeing a black delegate wearing an orange armband in support of lesbian rights, a button favoring abortion and a pro-ERA button...
...sympathy, even though it makes things more difficult politically." Agreed Kentucky's Allie Hixson, chairwoman of her delegation: "This is a women's rights issue because if any group of individuals is repressed, it affects us all." The vote on the issue, said Liz Carpenter, head of ERAmerica, shows "how secure women have become. Five years ago, it would have been impossible...
...making plans for this year's campaign in South Carolina, where a senate vote is expected within several weeks. Yet ERA has lost in that state twice before, and local politicians believe the measure cannot clear both the house and senate during the current session. Looking further ahead, ERAmerica, the group coordinating the ratification drive, hopes to defeat key opponents during the 1978 state-legislature elections-a tactic that could produce some last-minute ratifications early in 1979. Sympathetic groups like the National Education Association have announced they will not schedule conventions in states that have not passed...