Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts State Equal Rights Amendment

The Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts State Equal Rights Amendment was created in the summer of 1975 to replace the Massachusetts State ERA Coalition and raise money for the ratification campaign in the November 1976 referendum. After the ERA was passed, the Committee became the ERA Implementation Project, which lobbied for legislation to reconcile existing laws with the ERA. The Women's Rights Project was begun in 1977 to litigate in areas where legislative efforts failed.

The Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts State Equal Rights Amendment was created in the summer of 1975 to replace the Massachusetts State ERA Coalition and raise money for the ratification campaign in the Nov. 1976 referendum. After the ERA was passed, the Committee became the ERA Implementation Project, which lobbied for legislation to reconcile existing laws with the ERA. The Women's Rights Project was begun in 1977 to litigate in areas where legislative efforts failed.

Following the passage of the Massachusetts state Equal Rights Amendment in November 1976, the Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts ERA of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM) reformed as the ERA Implementation Project to oversee the orderly implementation of the ERA. The project lobbied to pass Senate Bill 1500, a package containing 160 separate pieces of legislation that would reconcile existing laws with the ERA. The Women's Rights Project was begun by CLUM in January 1977 to litigate in areas in which legislative amendment had failed.

As an offshoot of the Implementation Project, a coalition of women's and civic groups, including the National Organization for Women and the League of Women Voters, was formed in early 1977.