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14. Mai 2024 · Jeannette Rankin (born June 11, 1880, near Missoula, Montana, U.S.—died May 18, 1973, Carmel, California) was the first woman member of the U.S. Congress (1917–19, 1941–43), a vigorous feminist and a lifetime pacifist and crusader for social and electoral reform.
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Vor 5 Tagen · Jeannette Rankin was always a take-charge girl. Whether taking care of horses or her little brothers and sisters — Jeannette knew what to do and got the job done. That’s why, when she saw poor children living in bad conditions in San Francisco, she knew she had to take charge and change things.
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14. Mai 2024 · Jeannette Rankin’s campaign for women’s suffrage in Montana finally succeeded Nov. 3, 1914, but it had taken several decades and many women — and men — to get there. Since territorial days ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Jeannette Rankin, elected in 1916 by Montana as the first woman in Congress, was one of fifty members of Congress to vote against the declaration of war. In November 1917, a referendum to enfranchise women in New York – at that time the most populous state in the country – passed by a substantial margin.
Vor 2 Tagen · The first woman to be elected to Congress was Montana's Jeannette Rankin, a Republican, in the 1916 House elections; notably, this occurred before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which prohibits the federal government or any state from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex.
Vor 3 Tagen · A rare but notable example of pacifism from within the government came from Jeannette Rankin's opposition to the war. Rankin voted against the war particularly because she saw women and peace to be 'inseparable', [61] and even actively encouraged women to do more to prevent the war in America.
22. Mai 2024 · She was among 3,000 to 5,000 women who called themselves the Jeanette Rankin Brigade and marched against the war in Vietnam in January 1968. In 1969, she spoke to students at an antiwar...
