The ERA, initially drafted by womans' suffragist Alice Paul in 1923, was finally approved by a Democratic-led Congress in 1972. But the Amendment, which was first written only two years after White women were granted the right to vote, fell just three states shy of being officially added to the Constitution---and millions of Black women, women of color, and working-class women did not get the protections afforded by the Amendment.

Today, the ERA is just one state away from being added to the Constitution. But with the workplace, property, and divorce rights of millions of women in the hands of a Republican-led Senate, will the ERA finall be enshrined in the Constituton once and for all?