Title 9 protects people’s equality for education against sexual bias, and the 14th amendment gave equal rights to everyone regardless of race. While these sound good, you also have to see how they were implemented. Under these 2 legislatures, Separate but Equal is perfectly fine.

While supposedly giving everyone equal rights, they did nothing to protect against segregation, and did nothing to end sexual or racial based biases.

They were also not heavily enforced. Segregated places such as bathrooms and restaurants had vastly different levels of quality between them. Look at the woolsworth sit in protest for example, African Americans couldn’t even sit at a white person bar without being assaulted or mocked.

The Equal Rights Movement was not just about making sure everyone is equal under law, but making sure that everyone is treated the same, that segregation was not okay, and to try to turn society against sexism and racism levels that were the norm at that time.