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In 1972, when Schlafly began her campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment, the ERA had already been ratified by 28 of the required 38 states. [35] Seven more states ratified the amendment after Schlafly began organizing opposition, but another five states rescinded their ratifications.
In 1967, Phyllis Schlafly launched the Eagle Trust Fund for receiving donations related to conservative causes. [4] After the 1972 proposal of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Schlafly reorganized her efforts to defeat its ratification, founding the group "Stop ERA" [8] and starting the Eagle Forum Newsletter. In 1975, Stop ERA was renamed the ...
Mrs. America dramatizes the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly.Through the eyes of the women of that era – both Schlafly and prominent second-wave feminists including Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, and Jill Ruckelshaus – the series explores how one of the ...
Schlafly's fight to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment has recently been dramatized in FX on Hulu's Mrs. America, with Cate Blanchett playing the STOP ERA founder.
I'm now in Phyllis Schlafly mode: Yesterday, a group of 120 Democrats sent a letter to President Joe Biden, who is apparently still kickin', asking him "to take immediate action to recognize the ...
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Phyllis Schlafly wearing a "STOP ERA" badge at an anti-ERA rally on February 4, 1977. The book helped create space within the Republican Party for the modern conservative movement that eventually stopped the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.
Perhaps most importantly, men’s rights activists believed something primarily promoted by ERA opponents like Phyllis Schlafly: that the amendment would force women to serve in the military, a ...