While Virginia became the 38th, the final state necessary to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the Department of Justice instructed the National Archivist to ignore the law and add the ERA to the United States Constitution. THIS IS HIS JOB!
Many League members attended this excellent event. Continue to come back to our website to see advocacy and celebratory events like this.
Donna Granski, 73, remembers coming to Virginia’s state capitol in the 1970s to show support for the Equal Rights Amendment.
“It means that my granddaughters can pick up a copy of the United States Constitution and see that they are enshrined in it,” she says.