Black Women in Support of the Equal Rights Amendment: “A Victory Over Right-Wing Racist Sexism”

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From Pauli Murray to Barbara Jordan to Shirley Chisholm, Black women have been essential advocates for the Equal Rights Amendment.

to ratify the ERA in Virginia in 2020, finally bringing the total ratifications of the ERA to the 38 states required to become part of the Constitution.

“Although my motivation, energy and effort to meet the highest standards of performance have been operative throughout my life, I have experienced numerous delays in my career, not for the traditional reasons given for the failure of women to develop on par with men in our society , but by a combination of individual and institutional racism and sexism—Jim Crow and Jane Crow…

“[Black women have] suffered more than the mere addition of sex discrimination to race discrimination. She has suffered the conjunction of these twin immoralities… The conjunction of race and sex discrimination directed toward a [Black] woman has a special quality of virulence which becomes almost unbearable.

 

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Played major roles for Women's Rights 70s &80s

Good for them!

vinivinidogo Broke my heart when it failed to pass in Ohio.

Black women deserve significant credit for ALL of the progress we make in this country.

And why is Gloria needed in the image if the article is about Black women? Let Flo Kennedy be pictured solely as you did the other two. Did you make room in this image for Gloria b/c it’s about Equal Rights or b/c you didn’t want White women to feel excluded?

That’s not Shirley Chisholm pictured in the middle. It matters b/c you named and pictured the other 2 correctly. And If you’re going to picture Flo Kennedy then say her name in this tweet not just in the article. She’s not just some random Black woman in the image.

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