Keep Colorado Equal Rights

Keep Colorado Equal Rights Cause Button Museum
Category
Cause
Additional Images
Keep Colorado Equal Rights button back Cause Button Museum
Text on Button KEEP Colorado EQUAL RIGHTS Vote No! 6
Image Description

Brown button with orange text.
Curl Text (union bug)
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 11/16 inch
Year / Decade Made
1970s
Additional Information

In 1972 Colorado passed an amendment to their state constitution guaranteeing equal rights for women within the state. In 1976 Colorado's Measure 6 was proposed to remove the equal rights amendment from the state constitution. This button was worn in opposition to the measure, which did not pass.
Sources

Colorado remove language forbidding sex-based inequality, measure 6 (1976). Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics.
Catalog ID CA0469