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"[Biden] has refused to do the one thing that looks the very most like America..."

Twenty-fourth Amendment, amendment (1964) to the Constitution of the United States that prohibited the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election. It was proposed on August 27, 1962, and ratified on January 23, 1964.

Fifteenth Amendment, amendment (1870) to the U.S. Constitution that guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on ‘race, color, or previous condition of servitude.’ Its ratification effectively enfranchised African American men while denying the right to vote to women of all colors.

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would invalidate many state and federal laws that discriminate against women; its central underlying principle is that sex should not determine the legal rights of men or women. Learn more about the ERA.

It isn’t surprising that the secular movement in America has been characterized by historical discontinuities that, in a number of respects, resemble the amnesia that held back feminism for so long.