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In 1923, three years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, Alice Paul and other members of the National Woman’s Party drafted a proposed constitutional amendment that would extend equal rights to women. Almost fifty years later, the U.S. Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and it was forwarded to the states for approval on March 22, 1972.
Read moreIn 1987, Congress officially declared the month of March as Women's History Month. Since then, Women's History Month has become an important step in honoring women’s contributions to history that have often been overlooked in general education for years.
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