so again from alice paul's standpoint. this was a type of involuntary servitude for women, but through the course of the research project as paul and other nwp members were realizing it wasn't just married women who were suffering from these sex specific laws and customs. it was all women in general. so that's why she brought in the wording of the era to be what it was in 1923, which i haven't written down just in case i forget okay, so it was men and women shall have equal rights throughout the united states and every place subject to section and congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. so a very broad amendment that yeah, very broad amendment that again embraces this idea of complete constitutional sexually quality for men and women citizens. i just want to say very importantly because some people don't know this alice paul would reword the amendment once more in 1943 when the era was gaining in popularity a few congress members suggested to her that it would be good to reword it

frederick douglass, alice paul, alexander hamilton, the late great john lewis, they were all in their early 20's when they fought for the constitutional nation of new rights or the rights already hard and fought for. they continue to do that today through their leadership. >> that is not surprising to me but for people who don't know you, extort never the insightful observations. i am old enough term member the passage of vote at 18 but it had a different slant. there was bipartisan support for that amendment. it passed in record time if memory serves me correctly. yet today, you see all of this work to try to suppress the vote. if you have been able to work with but the foundation and other constitutional scholars -- you found ways that use the constitutional protections of the 26th amendment and other things to be back this effort. >> absolutely. the 26th amend and is part of the evolution of the right to vote. it is a part of the 14th amendment, the 15th amendment, the 19th amendment, etc.. it was introduced at the end of the second reconstruction because young people finally turne

the equal rights amendment was written more than 100 years ago by a legendary suffragist alice paul. a relative of my late husband cliff maloney. after decades of effort, the era finally passed the house in october 1971. fifty years ago this month. a strong bipartisan vote. it passed the senate overwhelmingly the following year. the preamble to this included a seven year time limit and in 1979 congress voted to extend the limit by another three years by 1982, the era had been ratified by 35 of the necessary 38 states. the momentum stalled but that all changed in 2017. the women's marches in the meat to movement remind us us all that we are still a very long way from equality. in 2017, nevada voted to ratify, illinois followed in 2018 virginia 2020. thirty-eight state legislatures have voted to ratify. meeting the constitutional requirement. the era does not appear in the constitution and this has to change. federal law directs to the u.s. to certify it publish amendments . article five of the constitution this is purely a duty which should be done automatically. under president trump

from the seneca falls suffragists from alice paul to shirley chisholm to the gloria stein ham, to the inspiring generation of young women and queer activists and allies of the new millennium. we have pleaded for centuries a simple and powerful thing: equality under the law. i want my daughter bella to grow up knowing she has the same rights as every man in this country, and i want my son milo and every boy in america to know that, too. they deserve a government that cannot treat them differently because of gender. if there is one word which defines the american identity, it is freedom. we call our president the leader of the free world when we present ourselves to other nations advocating across the globe for democracy and human rights, it is freedom which drives that discussion. there are even members of this very committee who belong to something called the freedom caucus. but how can we be a free people when our governing document does not prohibit discrimination against more than half of the population? the answer, of course, is that we cannot. the lack of constitutional protectio

. ♪ go ask alice i think she'll know ♪ >> when we left, it was dark and the rolling stones were on, and we were on a helicopter. pault, including charles manson, the guru or high priest, have been indicted in the murder of sharon tate and six others. >> all the elements are present for one of the most sensational murder trials in american history. seven people brutally murdered in a glare of hollywood publicity. involvement of a mystical hippie clan which despised the straight, affluent society. young girls, supposedly under the spell of a bearded svengali, who allegedly masterminded the seven murders. >> good morning. >> why? >> the sun's shining this morning. >> it is? >> yeah. >> charles manson cleverly masqueraded behind the common image of being a hippie, goes up to the haight-ashbury district. surrounds himself with a bunch of young followers. their lifestyle was sex, orgies, and lsd trips. eventually he gets them to do mass murder for him. >> with blood, the killer scrawled on a refrigerator door "death to pigs." >> you see, prior to these murders, no one associated hippies with violence and murder. people wo