SEATTLE – Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson added her signature to a national petition Monday, joining advocates at City Hall to call for the recognition of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The signing was part of the “Driving the Vote for Equality” tour. Organizers of the cross-country campaign say they are fighting for the full constitutional rights of women.
Retracing suffrage history
The event featured volunteers dressed in suffrage-era costumes and a vintage 1914 Golden Flyer II roadster. The vehicle is the same model used by two suffragists who traveled across the United States in 1916 during the campaign for women’s voting rights.
More than a century later, the current tour is retracing that original route, which included a stop in Seattle.
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