VARIOUS SHOTS ERA SUPPORTERS MARCHING, SOF SOME CHANTING, MORE SHOTS EAR SUPPORTERS MARCHING AND CARRYING SIGNS AND BANNERS. QUICK SHOT SMALL COUNTER DEMO, SHOTS MARCHERS AT THE CAPITOL. FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN BELLA ABZUG SAYS THEY WANT EQUALITY AND JUSTICE NOW, APPLAUSE, MORE SHOTS OF RALLY AT CAPITOL.




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ED NOTE: REPORTER IS JACKSON BAIN.

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Background: AN ESTIMATED 100,000 PEOPLE MARCHED SUNDAY IN WASHINGTON D.C. TO CONVINCE CONGRESS TO EXTEND THE TIME ALLOWED TO RATIFY THE EQUAL RIGHT AMENDMENT. THE ERA SUPPORTERS NEED THREE MORE STATES TO RATIFY THE AMENDMENT BEFORE MARCH OF 1979 IF THE CONGRESS DOES NOT PASS A LAW ALLOWING THEN ANOTHER SEVEN YEARS TO RATIFY THE AMENDMENT.