Advocates make tour stop in century-long push for Equal Rights Amendment in Santa Rosa

A 1916 Saxon roadster painted suffrage yellow rolled up to the Saturday Afternoon Club in Santa Rosa on Thursday afternoon, carrying two of the best-known names in the modern women’s history movement and an argument about an amendment a century in the making.

The car is the centerpiece of Driving the Vote for Equality, a national tour pressing the case that the Equal Rights Amendment — ratified by 38 states and stuck for years on a procedural question about a deadline — has only one path left: back through Congress.