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I asked a historian of women’s issues, “In the 1920’s, and recently, there were great strides for women’s rights. Why did it fade away?” The answer got was not one I expected. “It didn’t. The media merely stopped reporting it.” Whether it is Tiananmen Square or Washington Square, if people can communicate, they can rally around a cause. When there is a coup, what’s one of the first things the leaders take over?...

On July 9, 1978, a Women’s Suffrage banner that had rarely been seen outside of a museum since the 1920’s, once again saw the light day. Old and venerable, the purple and gold colors of the National Women’s Party moved down the Capital Mall as over 100,000 of us stepped into herstory. Dressed all in white-the suffragist colors-we marched to peaceably ask for an extension on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)....