[quote=svelte]Now – can you name civil rights legislation that they initiated after 1960 (52 years ago)?
Not just supported, but initiated?[/quote]
Try this one on for size svelte:
“The Republican Party included support of the ERA in its platform beginning in 1940, renewing the plank every four years until 1980.[8] The ERA was strongly opposed by the American Federation of Labor and other labor unions, who feared the amendment would invalidate protective labor legislation for women. ERA was also opposed by Eleanor Roosevelt and most New Dealers, who either contended that women needed government protection, that men did not or otherwise did not want the only labor protections abolished before they could be extended to men as well, as it would likely be a blow to unions and the movement for labor laws. The amendment was opposed by most northern Democrats, who aligned themselves with the anti-ERA labor unions but the ERA was supported by southern Democrats and almost all Republicans.”
Frum, David (2000). How We Got Here: The ’70s. New York, New York: Basic Books. pp. 245–248. ISBN 0-465-04195-7
It will probably not satisfy you, but it is certainly more than the Dems. did for women. Interesting the strange bedfellows of the Dem. Party.
