Equal Rights Amendment Overview
Origins and Subsequent Actions in Congress and the States
On July 20, 1923, the National Woman’s Party (NWP) met in Seneca Falls, New York, to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the historic Seneca Falls Convention and celebrate the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, by which women won the right to vote. At the meeting, NWP leader Alice Paul announced her next project would be to develop and promote a new constitutional amendment, guaranteeing equal rights and equality under the law in the United States to women and men. Paul, a prominent suffragist, noted the recent ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which established the right of women to vote….
